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Page. 

Mankind, evolved from instinctive natures, to moral, rational intelligence 1 

Mankind, have no rights under a God, who contradicts his own decrees 2 

Old trick for hedging oppression 3 

Like Jonah's Gourd, the object of redemption grows up in one night 4 

New Testament the work of St. Gregory, Chrysostom, Ambrose and Jerome 5 

The church substitutes its Gods, disposal of Adam, with its own, 1 Cor. 15:22 6 

Adam's tlireatened death; commuted to exile from Eden 7 

The perverted use or meaning of a narrative, ^'itiates the impress of divinity 8 

A partnership never enemies on the start 9 

Moral perfection, how evoked, cultivated and continued 10 

Chagrin of a God and his Proselytes, that Adam's exile was of non-effect 11 

The Christian God, m-ging a sign for comfort, upon an idolater refusing to ask it 12 

The Church apostatizes, the words of a sign, to yield a God, and the mother of Gods 13 

Jewish God's exile of Adam, made void, by the sacrifice of a new God for the sin 14 

Church sacrifices the new God, as fraction of the elder God, for his treatment of Adam. ... 15 

Latin church discusses dogma of predestination at close of the fourth century 16 

Baptism alone prevailing ceremonial in the Christian sect, for change of heart up to A. D. 

381 17 

To admit contradiction in the Bible charges the Jewish Holy Ghost with ignorance and 

neglegence 18 

Elder Jewish God and sin against him made divisible 19 

Fractions of the elder, or Jewish God, according to Paganism, granted parentage 20 

Mind looks for a knowledge, to powers for correction, with satisfaction or to be disappointed 21 

Moral integrity is as opposed to insensible obedience, as truth to falsehood 22 

Original Sin is founded, upon an act, commanded by the Moral Law 23 

Moral Law is the line of demarcation, between the true and the false, whether Gods, creeds 

or men 24 

Abraham's allegiance matches the savage, in the offering of hiunan sacrifice 25 

The Jewish God's positive denial, of other Gods before, or after him, or a Savior, Isa. 

43:10:11 26 

If Adam's act was successfully absolved, by his God's decree, why inflict other penalty. . 27 

Cannot condemn an highwayman, with part of the spoils, in j^our sinful possession 28 

The Moral Law demands, the soul's determination, through conceptions 29 

" I am the Lord thy God, the Holy one of Israel, beside me there is no Savior" 30 

The Holy Spirit as a relation, between man and the Supreme Being is not to be worshiped . . 31 
Acceptance of a proffered advantage from the church, yields assent to the crucifixion. ... 32 

A Savior from the loins of David has not yet appeared 33 

Indefensible " Obedience to the death of the cross" in theory and practice is immoral. ... 34 

Did Adam or Eve, commit any recorded sin, after the first year 35 

The " God said behold the man has become as one of us to know good and evil" 36 

Adam's disobedience is the material, of Original Sin, when Eve alone transgressed, 1 Tim 

2:14 37 

Moral Law discloses, all vissages beneath the mask, for license in a God's name 38 

To confess Christ, admits Adam's accountability and sin, not Eve's, 1 Cor. 15:22 39 

Impropriety of a hero of a drama, acting in the capacity, of his own advance agent 40 

Damnation of all men for unbelief of that, for which. Eleven suffered rebuke 41 

Supreme Being presides, over the moral, as well as the secular, order of the world 42 

Law of moral universe, of the Supreme Being, is virtue all the time 43 

Any God who punishes disobedience, to an inmioral command, is a counterfeit 44 

The contradictory of the formula, " (For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 

made alive,") is true 45 

Moral Law declares : (for as in Christ all die even so in Adam shall all be made alive) .... 46 
Original Sin is the flaming sword, of the church, to sever the aspiration of eternal life .... 47 
Lamech the father of Noah, claims seventy and seven fold protection against murder .... 48 
The true worshippers of the Supreme Being, are those whose thought and life, harmonize 

with the universe 49 

Mankind are migrating from an instinctive nature, to one of moral rational intelligence. 50 
As the capacity for moral intelligence attains the ascendant; instinctive powers retrograde . . 51 

The church by the hand of St. Peter, holds the keys to its heaven 52 

The Mohammedans opened schools, in 36,000 cities and \dllages, captured from the 

Christians 53 

If a writer puts his God, upon the throne of despotism, his vocation is by necessity im- 
moral 54 

As a guide for conduct, always reckon with the Moral Law 55 

Consequences of thought and act, are unexceptional decrees, of the Supreme Being 56 

When you challenge a faculty, or an intuition, you subvert the natural order of its growth 57 



VI MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

Original Sin! merits of Jesus! What a coronation, for the offspring of freedom 58 

A Devil could not be in a better fix, than atoning for virtue 59 

The case is not quite so bad, when one God, is sacrificed to another 60 

The soul should be identifying its powers, with eternal truth 61 

If for want of time, a man does not investigate, for his truth he takes it second-hand. ... 62 

It is absolute and imperative duty, to obey the Moral Law 63 

The destin}^ of the human soul, at the hand of the church is at the mercy of men, etc .... 64 

The Supreme Being will never let one, church deluded, soul perish 65 

A father wields authority because he can, not because it is right 66 

The Supreme Being seats none at his right hand, who treat virtue, as sin 67 

The Supreme Being needs no advance agent, to dispense license for vice of Rulers 68 

Emperor Valens a christian, by baptism alone, A. D. 378 69 

The maxim of tyrants is. obedience is the only piety disobedience, the only sin 70 

The Jewish God sets the third year for accountability, Isa. 7:16 punishes Adam, Gen. 

3:24, the first 71 

The regulative ideas in most men are below the threshold of consciousness,once above their 

voice is infallible 72 

Text-booksshouldbeineverygradeof public schools, covering exercises on the Moral Law. . 73 

Are Christian Proselj^tes suborned witnesses, to vouch for immoral dogmas 74 

The dogmas of the atonement is a contaminatiog consent to crime, but when so understood 

the blight vanishes 75 

Pompey, Crassus and Caesar nail six thousand patriots to crosses 76 

Guilt attaches for indefensible assent, to human sacrifice to expiate virtue 77 

Vengence of Jewish God is like a weather vane to every wind that blows 78 

The Jewish God is the precise one, that the church adopted, for the Christian Religion ... 79 

Christian Dogmas contradict the voice and veracity of the faculties and intuitions 80 

A Savior to atone for obedience to the right, contradicts itself 81 

Can a Christian win heaven, under a God against whom crucifixion is a mockery 82 

The Moral Law demands, that all men should be treated, as though capable of perfection. . 83 

How are men trained, to a world of fancy, going to conform, to a world of reality 84 

The world of the church is run by a very reckless kind of man 85 

Does any mythical writer mention, transmitted despotism from king to heir apparent . . 80 
Does a mother wittingly exercise her patience and forbearance at the child's expense. ... 87 
Why is the victim two-fold more the child of Hell than his capturer, one assents to fraud, 

the other to crime which accounts for the rebate 88 

A ruler will be no more moral, than the God furnished, by his creed 89 

The universe libeled mth Original Sin, that never came into existence at all 90 

The Jewish God's wrath was appeased, for centuries, with the blood of bulls and goats. . 91 
The value of a religion, is to protect mind and body, from premature ravages of time .... 92 
Conscience can report, only upon such order and consistency, as is available at the time . . 93 

The axiom nature is uniform, is false, if men walk the sea and traverse the air 94 

If we make the perfection of our nature the end, all sophistry vanishes 95 

Do the animals teach their offspring, to be mindless of their sure destro^^er 96 

Dogmas of the New Testament originated in part, to subjugate the Goth, Hunn, and 

Vandal 97 

Inspiration is applicable to a mind like Shakespeare who constructs the prologue, catastrophe 

and epilogue of a play 98 

What church was ever known, to graduate a Proselyte 99 

When a passport for an act is wanted, first make it the action, of the prevailing God then 

imitate him 100 

Virtue in the realm of oppression, is a contradiction, and must be treated as a vice 101 

Truth never breeds error, but the dogmas of sin and redemption create error 102 

Despotism furnishes a Savior, upon whom to unload the burden, of natural virtue 103 

Despotism to sever the aspiration of Eternal life, uses a flaming sword which turns every 

way " \ 104 

The Jewish God's dominion or paradise, can do for others, no more than for Adam 105 

Disobedience to a command, enjoining ignorance, is commanded by the Moral Law 106 

It is more than manifest, that the God of Jewish legends prohibits knowledge and eternal 

life 107 

A disposition to disobey oppression is sin in the realm of immoral fancy, but a virtue else- 
where 108 

True followers of the Supreme Being are sustained with a positive faith in the Moral Law. . 109 
Down to B. C. 678, " So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images" . . 110 
In the universe of the Supreme Being, disobedience to oppression, is the price of liberty. .111 

Moral rational man, has not two natures, at war with each other 112 

St, Gregory saw, that obedience and ignorance, went hand in hand 113 

I'p to the time of Original Sin A. D. 381, Baptism would produce change of heart in both 
the living and the dead 114 



MOHAL LAW APPLIED, VIl 

Among the Mohammedans, Christians, and Jews the Jewish God in trinit}^ or unit}' is 

well fixed 115 

Intuitive ideas, become the soul's standards, when evoked and disciplined 116 

After Adam had served a full sentence, the church gives liim, a new trial 117 

The church finds, the entire human race, dead, in sin under the Jewish God 118 

The Jewish God, like an irrational man, who was mistaken, but punishes for authority. .119 
The suppliant in the realm of oppression, if so be, must be forgiven in Advance in the realm 

of freedom 120 

Althougli a sinner in the realm of despotism, Adam stands identified with Moral Law in 

realm of freedom - , 121 

The moral is: freedom, knowledge, wisdom and eternal life, must be gained in defiance of 

oppression 122 

A present available power, to employ the intuitions of truth and right, should be a matter 

of course 123 

The soap bubble of Original Sin, won't bear its own expression in M^ords 124 

The relation set up, between Adam and his God, is the standard of Christian Religion. . . . 125 

Give me martyrdom first hand, not after an Adam's exile has absolved the offense 126 

Creeds, dogmas and beliefs, when transmuted to an end, means moral extrophy of powers . . 127 
The fraud practiced upon the words of Isa. 7:14 and Gen. 2:17 cancels the impress of 

divinity 128 

Book of Hebrews first procured A. D. 397, of a Nazarene of Berea by St. Jerome 129 

In the eighth centurv, two-thirds of male inhabitants of England, were buried in dog 

collars ". ^ 130 

The Christian Ptcligion since A. D. 400 is like a season's run of hats with style bandying 

the right of bo' lily protection 132 

Either one Paul is the inventor, of Original Sin, or it is the work of the church 133 

Christians who can neither read or write, believe every word of the Bible 134 

If reason finds upon the proofs, a statement valid, there is time enough then to accept it. . 135 

■Gods of Despotism carried for four centuries, in America to incite freedom 136 

Seat beside the Jewish God's throne, with wronged humanity, for a foot-stool 137 

Could Bible be dictated, by the Holy Spirit, of the Supreme Being? Never 138 

Teach children to love the crimes of mythology. Historj^ repeats fiction, as well as itself. . 139 
Lack of moral and ethical wisdom alone, makes possible the infamous dogma of Original 

Sin 140 

Dogma of Resurrection, a shift and jugglery from dogma, to law of nature, 1 Cor. 15:13 

to 23 141 

"^'Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived, was in the transgression" 142 

Are you sorry that Original Sin is a fraud, and a falsehood, that sin abounds less than 

you expected 143 

Are you sorry Adam's act is a virtue, which cancels Christ's existence and mission 144 

Teach truth and the Love of Truth will grow, but falsehood will work according to its . . 

nature 145 

The Moral Law is the positive line of demarcation, which separates false Gods and . . 

men from the true 146 

Sins were so scarce at that period, that two remedies, must be worked off on to a single sin . . 147 
Marcus Aurelius burnt the tax claims of the poor; the Christian Theodosius burnt the tax 

payer "... .148 

When they saw Peter and John, unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled . 149 

A Savior from the seed of David, never existed at all. Matt. 1 :18 to 25 150 

Adam's exile, makes the scheme of redemption, an effect without a cause 151 

Christian bishop pushes Gabriel, to the utterance of his own tyrannical sentiments 152 

Original Sin reared upon an act, in the real universe, commanded by the Moral Law. ... 153 

Book of Revelation made cononical A. D. 397, work of St. John Chrysostom 154 

Original Sin has subverted, the critical rationality, and morality of its believers 155 

Constantine, an exile from his native altar, accepts his purgation by baptism alone 156 

Messiah's time during forty days exploits, after resurrection devoted, to Old Testament, 

to vidicate his m.ission 157 

Immanuel, in the original context, Isa. 7:14 indicates the naming period of an infant. . . . 158 
Peter rebukes Jesus for his intention of being a "particeps criminis, " Jesus calls him Satan . 159 
Jesus talks as familiarly, about being killed, as did Old Polonius, in the play of Hamlet to 

whom Hamlet replied; ''it was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.". .160 

How pray! can a man believe, after his adopted God, concludes him in unbelief 161 

Should a man, for an imputed misdemeanor in one dominion, assent to a felony as a rem- 
edy in another 162 

If it be a question, of words and names, and of your law, I will be no Judge of such matters. 163 
Unity of origin of God the Father and God the Son by, being the offspring of King Ahaz's 

Virgin 164 

But don't smile, for Sarah was forced to lie, for a smile at absurdity '. 165 



Yin MORAL LAW APPLIE1>. 

Original Sin reared from a curse, of the Jewish God 2132 years previous to his oath for a 

blessing 16g 

Think of a sin offering in this universe for virtue, classed a sin in the domain of despotism . . 167 

'' For as in Adam all dfie, even so in Christ, shall all be made alive " 168 

The mission, of every member of the trinity, is to yield to the throne, the right to punish 

virtue 169 

All this folly and intoxicated self-deception, comports with the epoch of its origin 170 

Was any reporter on the ground, to take notes, of Adam's exploits 171 

New Testament originated, by no carpenters, tent-makers, or fishermen, but by men 

like St. Gregory 172 

Rights reserved by Savior for Gods and Kings to punish first offense and church to punish 

in advance against rule of 70 times 7 between fellow subjects 173 

Stories false as events, and setting up a rule of error, should not be sanctioned at all 174 

" Those who receive not the love of truth, shall believe a lie, " 2 Thes. 10:11 175 

Forgiveness, in Advance of any sin committed, is the latest by the church 176 

Displacing Peter's seven times, Jesus 490 times between subjects, and sent up: by God or 

King for the first offense 177 

So let " tyranny range on till, " equal rights are crushed to death 17S 

Your tyro, with the spur of dogmatic faith, compels his victim to kneel, eat and drink the 

emblems of oppression 179 

Rotten shingles agree, with the idea of patching 180 

The right hand of the throne; the "sanctum repositum," of King Ahaz's Immanuel 181 

Fortunate for his Proselytes that the Jewish God and his dominion, are confined to paper 

and ink 182 

Adam's disobedience is a just rebuke to the advocates of ignorance 183 

When virtue is the sin, in the dominion of oppression, it must be twice expiated 184 

Which is most likely to blight mankind, ignorance or opposition to oppression 185 

Biblical righteousness is Abraham's attempt to destroy the life of his son 186 

Abraham said though one rose from the dead, neither will they be persuaded 187 

The character of the Jewish God for ignorance and crime, displayed in his exploits, with 

Adam, Abraham and Ahab 188 

Adam could not be the original sinner, if Eve only was to blame 180 

Men who hang their destiny on an express contradiction, should expect misery 190 

Choose which you will serve, the christian trinity or the Supreme Being 191 

Everything is possible with the Jewish God, even to the total eclipse of the Moral Law. . . . 192 
Descendants of the characters in the New Testament, would be like those of Shakespeare's 

Tubal and Shylock 193 

True source of human degradation Adam's sin, not tyrants abuse of power 194 

The trinity in possession of the dominion of fancy, do business, at the expense of the moral 

universe 195 

Why should you reject Original Sin? Because it puts a premium on ignorance 196 

The decrees of the Supreme Being, become the mind's axiomatic truths 197 

When we think aright, our thought accords with truth, and moral rectitude 198 

Human imagination is powerless, to give the mind an entity 199 

The Supreme Being is an Entity, a reality, his voice is reason, right, life and growth 200 

Abraham a myth is believed by Rev. Robert Taylor, to be a personification of sign Ram 

of the Zodiac 201 

Jewish God is anchored to Abraham as cause, Jesus is anchored to Abraham as effect. . . .202 
Jewish God uses angels as messengers, to supply the defect, of omniscience and omni- 
presence 203 

Bribed with the surrender of a human victim, this God makes oath to bless all nations. . . .204 

We will bring the stiff-necked masses, to our altars 205 

Do Animals, instruct their offspring; contradicting the ordinances of natiu'e 206 

Men governed by reason prefer the real universe, of law and order, to one of fancy 207 

Human powers, are correlates of the existing conditions, of the universe 208 

The real Supreme Being, furnishes mankind their standards, not a license to sin 209 

If Isa. 7:14 and Matt. 1:23 signifies time, would faith in such as a God avail anything. . . .210 
If the Jewish God stands for the Supreme Being, why force an Idolater, like Ahaz, with 

comfort Isa 7:12:14 211 

By numrical metamorphosis. Verse 14 of Isa. 7, B. C. 742, is made Verse 23, of Matt. 1, 

B, C. 5 212 

Jewish God's decrees in no manner influenced, by the Moral Law of this universe 213 

Adam or Eve, could not possibly commit sin for me, to absolve 214 

AVhy let Jonah and Jesus exploit about the region of Hell, if not fit subjects 215 

Is it right to force the Jewish God, to back both the original of Isa. 7:14 and the perverted 

narrative Matt. 1 :22 :23 216 

Does the Supreme Being require assent to crucifixion, in imitation of Paganism 217 



MORAL LAW APPLIED. IX 

Does Adam's virtue, in the real universe, require absolution, because it is a sin against 

despotism 218 

"For God hath concluded all in unbelief, (of such nonsense), that he might have mercy 

upon all" 219 

Thus is manifest the folly of an attempt to reconcile the standard of one realm Tvith its 

opposite 220 

Christian creeds which contradict the mind's standards are doomed 221 

Punishment of virtue, can never be reconciled, with the Moral Law 222 

Anj^ church which teaches, that any form of crucifixion is right, is still barbarous 223 

To make error displace truth, is what cliristian dogmas have done, are doing and will do. .224 
Do 3^ou marvel, that knowledge of good and evil, might disclose good Gods from evil 

Gods 225 

'' If an}^ man be ignorant, let him be ignorant," is christian truth 226 

The Hobby horse, which must carry the clnristian, by resurrection to eternal life 227 

To make the resurrection of man, depend on Christ's; raises suspicion of falsehood 228 

The sayings by the mouth of Paul are doubtless, the works of Gregory, Jerome and their 

bishop contemporaries 229 

A sin offering of a Jesus Christ, whether crucified in effigy, pantomime or narrative alone, 

is a sin, in itself 230 

The dogmas of sin and redemption have been falsely intruded, into the working order of 

the Supreme Being 231 

The mere words used as a rhetorical flourish for time, are tortured into a sin offering for 

virtue 232 

Mere words by apostatization, can be changed to men, Gods or events, at the will of a 

Sycophant 233 

Despotism would have it generally understood, that rulers have a divine right, to punish 

virtue 234 

The reason infers, from a universe of effects, their cause the Supreme Being 235 

The characters of imaginary Gods, are read into them, from the designs of their makers . . 236 
If the conspiracy against Ahab by his God, could be attached, to the moral defalcation, of 

the Supreme Being, life is a chimera 237 

Do animals poison their offspring? yet the bigot offers his; both poison and falsehood 238 

Christians suppose Clirist, of the Jewish God, to be in the Supreme Being's employ, but 

are mistaken 239 

A Savior even, in the imaginary dominion of the Jewish God, is an intrusion by Isa. 43:11, 

and by Adam's exile is a mockery 240 

The Ark was the dwelling place, of the God of Israel the one adopted for the Christian 

Religion 241 

Truth, the love of truth, and the Moral Law are ordinances to protect, guide and perfect 

the soul 242 

New births conferred by act of council, upon the parts of the Jewish God, at different 

times and places 243 

Will a man admit that his God, or the Supreme Being is identical with the entire firm of 

Father, Son arid Holy Ghost 244 

God changed his name from Abram, at the age of ninety-nine, to Abraham, Gen. 17:5. .245 
Is a man of sense so bewildered, as to renounce the Supreme Being, for the mythical 

trinty 246 

The maxim for double dealings is ''Everything is possible with God" 247 

The crime of crucifixion, to cancel virtue, has trapped the church, Rom. 3:7:8 248 

Crucifixion, agreed upon, charged up to the masses, as a debt or deficit to be paid to 

its vicegerents 249 

The Real Diety, instead of his nature being read into him, is discovered by his laws 250 

Church goes back 1800 years over the oath to bless, and rakes up an old defunct curse, to 

dam its Proselytes with 251 

Your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule with rigor all others slaves,Lev. 25:44 522 

Is human thought so impaired, as to admit mankind must furnish, Israel its slaves 253 

However far you advance the universal spirit of intelligence accompanies your effort .... 254 
The Corn Theft Story, the rule of the Syrians and Egyptians, first stain your Gods hands, 

then your own 255 

The fisherman James, not familiar with the Old Testament, reveals the coypist 256 

What should be expected from a tyrant, but tyranny and an affront to that, to be met 

with death 257 

Man is so constituted that, moral excellence is paramount, to all else 258 

Maxims of tyranny are read into its Gods, and Saviors as a passport to its behests 259 



Moral Law Applied. 

yjfHE present epoch of human history is fraught with achievement that 
VJ/ pierces every environment. We who are permitted to enjoy a conscious 
existence at this stage of the planet's history, can only realize the advantages 
at our hand by a comparison of the present possibilities in human achievement 
with those of the past. In science, our youth to-day are using instruments for 
mental equipment that transcend the most sanguine hopes indulged by the 
philosopher of the past. After a cursory review of what is already reclaimed, 
they take up the exploration where their predecessor left off, and thus the work 
goes on. The child of to-day carries in his makeup all of the structural endow- 
ments of the race. Equipped with nine faculties and twelve necessary ideas 
which contact with the universe has grown and made necessary, so that, sup- 
plied with an outfit that has taxed the combined forces of the universe to furnish, 
man is to-day enabled to write his own biography upon a tablet which the destruc- 
tion of the planet cannot efface. It matters not which orb shall coach him 
through space, man has come to stay, and what he does should bear the impress 
of that conception. 

The great universe about us is arranged and run with such consummate 
skill that many an ingenious explorer has been tempted to exclaim, ''There 
needs no God! The universe runs itself.'' Yet such a statement carries its 
own defeat. The insurmountable fact of skill and perfection demands a Supreme 
Being with intelligence. The entire plant is run with such illimitable perfec- 
tion that the man of conjecture is led to admit that the owner has counted on 
nothing for its continuous self adjustment and regulation, but the invincible 
force of law governed and regulated and assigned its function by intelligence. 

Thus it is self evident that the nearer a human life conforms to the running 
order of the world the greater is the degree of perfection enjoyed by such life. 

All acts, determined by an intellectual impulse are free. Powers which 
involve a moral relation give rise to virtue or vice, right or wrong, good or evil. 
To know the right is to comprehend the relation ''that beings and objects stand, 
have stood and ought to stand to one another. " The conscious application of 
truth and right in the present state of progress are as necessary for the guidance 
of thought and act in man as instincts are for the guidance of life in less rational 
existences. According to the great principle of evolution, mankind in this 
epoch of the planet's history, are on the road from the home of instinctive 
natures, pure and simple, in search of an abode for moral rational intelligence; 
one quarter of the trip is already made; instincts are gone, that is, they are not 
transmitted as structures in the organism; their voice is forever silent. Moral 
and rational intelligence stands more in the nature of a capacity than instinct 
which furnishes an impulse to activity, and that capacity must be qualified 
and equipped on the start, with intellectual, moral and conscious effort. A 
chasm awaits the victims which do not firmly grasp the situation and sieze 



2 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

upon, act upon and live by the intelligent principle. The Supreme Being binds 
himself and all things else by his own decrees. The human race have no rights 
in a God that contradicts his own decrees. Such would be a license that could 
in no possible manner be ascribed to the origin of the universe. The Supreme 
Being in his knowing is bound by what is knowable and in doing, is bound by 
what is possible; and that admits in no tenible manner of a contradiction. 
Nature is uniform, is an axiom of intelligence. A cause must be adequate 
to the effect. Therefore the origin source or cause of nature must be uniform; 
and the nature that we behold about us bears out that truth. If we believe 
in the Supreme Being of the universe let us preserve the moral integrity of our 
thought in regard to him. It is an axiomatic truth that the Supreme Being 
is absolutely moral, right and reasonable. It is an axiomatic truth that any 
product of the imagination, which a writer designates for a God, which is 
characterized with immoral conduct, unrighteous conduct, or unreasonable 
conduct, is a counterfeit more dangerous to man for worship or adoration than 
an objective symbol or image; which at best could only represent the unknown. 

The Supreme Being is not created in the image of man to the exclusion of 
other beings any more than he is created in the image of an elephant, lion or 
rhinoceros; but man, like the quadruped, is created in the image of his forces, 
so that the more thorough a man becomes acquainted with the forces of nature, 
intellectual, moral and physical, the better he understands himself and the 
better he knows the Supreme Being. Writers for kings and emperors who 
ascribe to their god's language and conduct that contradicts the moral law 
necessary truth and right, which would be baseness in man to utter or act out 
belong to races whose infancy intellectually is not outgrown. 

The Hottentot priest of to-day makes a victim of his proselyte to repair 
his mistakes as a weather prophet. In the legends of B. C. 862 a like supersti- 
tion among the Jews prevailed. 

In Hebrew lore if a storm should become violent their God is angry; a game 
of chance must find the Jonah and the hungry billows could only be assuaged 
with this morsel of human flesh. Should to-day a priest of a tribe of Hottentots 
predict a storm, and it fails to arrive on the day indicated, some one by a game 
of chance has an evil spirit and must be put to death. One race would start 
a storm; another would stop it. Human sacrifice arrests the anger of the pre- 
vailing God which restores the equilibrium of physical forces ; one is as civilized 
as the other; both belong to the prattling infancy of superstition. 

In the year A. D. 381, Emperor Theodosius the great, whose tyrannical 
massacres, like that of Antioch and Thessalonica compelled him to employ an 
army of forty thousand barbarian Goths as security against internal uprising 
determined, if possible, to have the reputed source of human aggression shifted 
from his majesty's throne, and for that purpose, he convoked a council of his 
bishops from Europe, Asia and Africa to meet and do business at 
Constantinople and the said bishops shift the storm center from the unlimted 
despotism of their emperor to the Jewish God and furnish a victim as did Moab 
his eldest son, 2 Kings 3-27, to assuage the hungry billows of divine wrath as 
well as to calm the waves of discontent. Those bishops were until A. D. 381 



MORAL LAW APPLIED. 3 

using in their churches for the salvation of the masses, the Jewish baptism for 
woman only; for both men and women, but the storm was on and a Jonah or 
an evil Hottentot must be victimized to counteract its ravages; and in order 
to have a precedent, prophecy and God for a foundation they peruse the Jewish 
Bible and when they come to Isa. 7:14 they halt at the words, ''Behold a virgin 
shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and 
honey shall be eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good, for 
before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good the land that 
thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. '' This prophecy was deliver- 
ed B. C. 742 and B. C. 740 Rezin, king of Syria was slain, verified II Kings 
16:9. And B. C. 739, Pekah, king of Isreal, was slain; verified 2 Kings 15:30, 
who were the kings referred to; so that whether fiction or history, the prophecy 
according to the narrative completed its purpose B. C. 739 and that should end 
it. However a motion that the degradation of his highness' subjects arose 
from the disobedience of Adam in the Garden of Eden, and by a decision that 
the said disobedience was a sin, Original Sin, sin unto death, transmitted to all 
men equally and fractionally, so that like a contagion in the air, each at birth 
must share his circulating decimal both now and for ever and ever; so the motion 
was put to vote and carried and afterward the unconscienable libel upon all 
mankind was formulated Rom. 5:12: ''Wherefore as by one man sin entered 
into the world and death by sin; so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
sinned. '' But we must have a victim to atone for it. By the tactics of St. 
Gregory of Nazianzus and his coadjutors, the storm center is shifted from his 
highness' abuse of power to the Jewish God; and a victim for avenging his wrath 
is sacrificed in pantomime by his Majesty's disobedient subjects. Disobedience 
was voted a sin regardless of any moral aspect or relation; not only in Adam 
but Original Sin, sin unto death of the soul, infinitely divisible and fractional 
in all mankind, and such was made by the church a dogma of Christendom, 
expressed by the formula: Rom. 5:12: "Wherefore as by one man sin entered 
into the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
tinned. " , Thus Original Sin was made infinitely divisible and fractional and its 
blighting germs encircled the earth. 

If the emperor's bishops can furnish a Jonah or a Hottentot as a victim to 
the sacrifice and slaughter of which each proselyte must surrender unqualified 
assent — so that the moral nature of mankind vaccinated, with assent to cruci- 
fiction — the roaring ravages of this pestilential sin, or tendency to disobey 
oppression, can be checked. This is one more of the same old tricks for hedging 
oppression. And the said bishops start a victim from Isaiah's three year's time 
riddle, purporting to have originated by the Jewish God for the comfort of 
King Ahaz, a meaningless fragment of which the said bishops use under guise 
of a prophecy of the Jewish God, which they insert bodily in the new testament 
as verse 23 of Matt. Chap. 1, with their own alteration and apostatized meaning 
as follows: "Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son 
and they shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is God with 
us. " Which is a mutilation and an apostatization of the word "Immanuel" 
of Isa. 7:14, verified Matt. 1:23. 



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By the infallibility of the said bishop's vote the Holy Ghost was made an 
object of worship and to proceed from God the Father; and the Lord and Giver 
of Life. They decreed notwithstanding Isa. 43:10-11 to the contrary, that the 
word ' Immanuel ' used by the Jewish God as a metaphor to signify the naming 
period of an infant, of Isa. 7:14 meant as verified Matt. 1:23 ''God with us." 
By decree of their own they named the word 'virgin' of Isa. 7:14, the Virgin 
Mary, as verified Luke 1 :27. They voted the creed of the church into use that 
this Jesus Christ was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary; and that 
this Jesus Christ or ' God with us ' was crucified a sacrifice for us. The said 
bishops voted him an object of worship: "Wise men of the East when they 
saw the young child and Mary his mother, they fell down and worshiped him. 
Herod said 'when ye have found him, bring me word that I may come and 
worship him also. ' " Like Jonah's gourd, he grows up in one night, is crucified, 
buried, risen and seated all by act of council and the victim is sacrificed to 
assuage the hungry billows of the divine wrath of the Jewish God, and all for 
Adam's sin which compels this Jewish God to face the chagrin that Adam's 
disobedience to a command for ignorance and consequently oppression was so 
much a virtue that the execution of his own judgment was powerless to absolve 
it. However in defiance of the fact that Adam's sin, if a sin at all, should have 
been absolved by his exile from Eden; notwithstanding the victim or one-third 
part of the Jewish God is sacrified by the church to once again make the attempt 
to absolve Adam's sin of disobedience, now termed Original Sin, which is 
still raging in every species of human being throughout the earth. And the 
victim is reared by the apostatization of the word "Immanuel," of Isa. 7:14, 
is crucified and ready for the application to Adam's disobedience termed, when 
made infinitely divisible and fractional, Original Sin, which is treated by the 
church as cause, and Christ's crucifiction or atonement as effect. Verified by 
the formula I. Cor. 15:22: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all 
be made alive." Also Rom. 5:19: "For as by one man's disobedience many 
were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. " Thus 
in Rom. Chap. 5, the dogmas of Original Sin and salvation are generally expressed 
as cause and effect, antecedant and consequent. For a victim like Jonah or 
the Hottentot, the said bishops determined for their purpose that the time 
riddle of Isa. 7:14, would answer for the prophetic origin of the abject of redemp- 
tion to reabsolve Adam's disobedience better than 2 Sam'l 1-7:12:13; Acts 
2:29:30: "That God had sworn with an oath to him, (meaning the patriarch 
David), that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh he would raise up 
Christ to sit on his throne". Which Christ the Jews who are on the ground affirm 
in both theory and practice has not yet appeared. But a savior from Isa. 7:14 
upon which the church has foisted its own meaning in utter contradiction of the 
context is an easy matter to fulfill and can be used to carry a show a prophecy 
from the Jewish God which they quote Matt. 1 :23, emphatically as though the 
narratives of 2 Kings 15:30 and 16:9, was not in fulfillment of Isa. 7:14:15:16, 
a fragment of which the narrator of Matt. 1 :23 perverts for his design as though 
it were an unfulfilled sign as follows: "Behold a virgin shall be with child and 
shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel. " And this is 



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the clipped and mutilated coin that is used as the origin of the dogma of redemp- 
tion, the word ''Emmanuel'' being a mutilation of the word ''Immanuer" 
used by the Jewish God as a rhetorical flourish for the elapse of time verified 
Isa. 7:14:15:16, and the word '' Emmanuel " those bishops interpret to match their 
design as meaning " God with us " verified Matt. 1 :23. So that the resemblance 
between a rhetorical flourish for time, and a God for worship arising from the 
same words with what mutilation the church puts upon them being identical 
become divinely impressive. Thus the naming period of an infant becomes 
in meaning by the clerical act of apostatization identical with the phrase ''God 
with us. " Can this be the word of the Jewish God, or is it the work of St. 
Gregory, St. John Chrysostom, St, Jerome, St. Ambrose, and the bishops of the 
court of Emperor Theodosius, the Great, who gave mankind original sin in 
downright defiance of the Jewish God's original disposal of Adam's case as 
displayed in Gen. 3:17:18:19:22:24, and are now in the struggle of torturing 
a mutilated fragment of a prophecy of the Jewish God to yield a prophetic 
backing and foundation for their scheme to redeem mankind from Original Sin 
so bounteously and generously, by the church, delivered unto them. Let us 
see about it — and that no mistake be made that a Jonah or a Hottentot must 
be victimized, those anonymous bishops use the mouth' of the victim for their 
purpose, who at the request for a sign from the scribes and Pharisees, answered 
and said to them: "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, 
and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas, for as 
Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly" (to assuage the 
raging billows of divine wrath for disobedience) "so shall the Son of Man be 
three days and three nights" afloat "in the heart of the earth" for the same 
purpose, except the former was punished for his own disobedience verified 
Jonah 1:3:17, while the latter was punished for another's disobedience verified 
Rom. 5:19 by the words: "Wherefore as by one man's disobedience many 
were made sinners; so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. " 
The old game of tyranny for insensible obedience is on and the victim is made 
to prefigure his own destiny for the equilibrium of the forces of oppression; and 
the drama delivers the pantomime of crucifiction, burial and resurrection; and 
like the murder of Caesar, "the earth shook, rocks rent, graves were opened 
and many bodies of saints which slept arose and came out of their graves after 
his resurrection and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many. " veri- 
fied Matt. 27:52:53. Thus the mundane world of poesy as when Caesar perished 
did pay its due regard. The words "Now all this was done that it might be 
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet," in Isa. 7:14 B. C. 742, 
which is the theological switch that leads in one direction to the termination of 
King Ahaz's fear from his foes, Rezin and Pekah who perished as follows: 
Rezin B. C. 740, 2 Kings 16:9, and Pekah B. C. 739, 2 Kings 15:30, which 
prophecy is ascribed to the Jewish God, B. C. 742 and terminated upon the 
death of Pekah, B. C. 739. By the apostatization of the words "virgin" and 
"Immanuel" Isa. 7:14 yields in the other direction an object of redemption 
verified Matt. 1 :23 in downright defiance of the Jewish God's express affirmation 
Isa. 43:10:11, which states: "Before me there was no God formed; neither 



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shall there be after me and beside me there is no savior. " But by act of coun- 
cil A. D. 381, the Virgin Mary is made the mother of God the Son and by act 
of council A. D. 431, she is made the Mother of God the Father, and for the 
prophetic origin of God the Son, citation is made of Isa. 7:14. 

The writer of Genesis states in effect that his God passed judgment and 
sentence and delivered Adam into exile for the absolution of his disobedience. 
How long did Adam live in exile? Nine hundred and twenty-nine years; the 
act of disobedience, if not a virtue, should be completely absolved. Now then 
judgment, sentence and absolution for Adam's disobedience is executed, which 
has consumed nine hunded and twenty-nine years of time. What had the 
founders of the Christian Religion to do with the judgment, sentence and execu- 
tion of the Jewish God, whom they adopted and trinitized? Well, as you would 
say in modern language that the church or founders of Christianity; not con- 
sidering that their God had exercised good judgment in the disposal of Adam's 
case commuting a threat for immediate death to hard labor for life must have 
the case re-opened and in downright treason of their God annul his judgment, 
sentence and execution and substitute their God's disposition of Adam's case 
with their own. How so? Why the expulsion which Adam suffered from 
Eden as absolution is rendered of non-effect by the sacrifice of God the Son 
and they reason thus because Adam is the first man, and all men are his descend- 
ants; all men being comprised in the soul of Adam, Adam's disobedience is the 
disobedience of all, and the offense must be equally divisible and fractional in 
all forever to be born on this planet at least; and that too totally regardless 
of the fact that Adam's act is commanded by the moral law of the Supreme Being. 
Now you see how totally inadequate must be this God's judgment, sentence and 
execution to absolve an offense of such gigantic proportions as viewed, considered 
and finally disposed of by his church; thus this God, when he let fall from his 
lips that insignificant judgment and sentence upon Adam alone, was positively 
unaware of the misery which he might inflict upon all mankind, an afterthought 
which his church corrected; so on the strength of this oversight and mistaken 
opportunity for multiplying an offense in such a manner as to be equal and 
fractional for all, and a judgment and sentence that should apply equally and 
fractionally to all, so an indefensible libel is framed and set forth as the narra- 
tive of the convert tent-maker Paul verified Rom. 5:12 as follows: ''Where- 
fore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed 
upon all men, for that all have sinned. " So that from the disobedience of 
Adam as finally passed upon by the church and enunciated Original Sin we 
may now generalize and find the comm^on property sinfulness to be structurally 
inherent in all mankind if the God and sin against him be genuine. So that 
having imputed, enlarged, multiplied and generalized Adam's disobedience 
into universal and Original Sin, or sinfulness, and having completely belittled 
and wrecked their own God's conception of the nature of the offense as well as 
his disposition of Adam's case, which in comparison is as unity to multiplicity, 
when readjudicated by the unlimited prowess of one hundred and fifty bishops, 
the founders of Original Sin ascribed to a tent-maker named Paul. 

The next thing in order is to raise absolution in its application from unity 



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to plurality, which will be in absolute jest and utter mockery of mere nine 
hundred and twenty-nine years, or a sentence for life at hard labor, suffered 
by Adam which was a commutation from the threat of immediate death by his 
God; yet in downright defiance and positive ridicule and mockery of this God's 
judgment, sentence and execution administered upon Adam for disobedience 
one hundred and fifty bishops raise an artificial and perverted construction upon 
the mere words of the threat, — ^'Thou shaft surely die" of Gen. 2:17, which 
threat this God had already commuted to a life sentence and exile of Gen. 
3:23:24; yet to multiply, magnify, and to belittle their own God's execution, 
they interpret the threat of death, which the Jewish God had abandon and com- 
muted by Adam's expulsion from Eden, to mean death of the soul in sin, not 
death for bodily dissolution. So that by this double shuffle and insideous 
jugglery, say they all men being comprised in the soul of Adam and by the 
construction which the said bishops put upon the threat of death as meaning 
death of the soul in sin which is made infinitely divisible and fractional in all 
men; or to conclude in comparison with what it was, sin is now, as plurality to 
unity. Now then this lower court has by construction laden all men dead in 
sin, according to the libel Rom. 5:12: '^ Wherefore as by one man sin entered 
into the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men for that all men 
have sinned. " But to raise the absolution from unity to plurality or from 
hard labor for life, suffered by Adam for complete absolution to an execution 
for absolution in which each individual of mankind must work out his aliquot 
share, or an equivalent, which is a sacrifice of moral purity by a surrender of 
assent to the crucifiction of the human part of the God the Son, and yielding 
the proselyte a sharer in the church imputed advantage conditioned thereon and 
formulas for the purpose read as follows: Gal. 3:22: ''But the scripture hath 
concluded all under sin; that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given 
to them that believe." And Rom. 11:32: 'Tor God hath concluded all in 
unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. " But God the Son saith Mark 
16:16: "He that believeth not shall be damned." And Rom. 10:9, states: 
"If thou shaft confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shaft believe in thy 
heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shaft be saved. " In open defi- 
ance and utter mockery of their own God's affirmation Isa. 43:10:11, which 
states in effect beside me there is no God or Savior. In other words the execu- 
tion enjoining hard labor for life to absolve the sin decreed by the Jewish God 
against authority, who had abandoned the threat of death, yet in utter jest 
of the Jewish God's decree for Adam's exile the threat of death is restored, 
revived and the case of Adam's disobedience is re-opened and by interpretation 
and construction of the church, is made death of the soul in sin, which is in 
positive mockery and utter chagrin of the Jewish God who delivered the judg- 
ment, sentence and execution upon Adam to hard labor for life, in place of 
immediate death. So likewise, the bishops of the church placed their own 
construction and interpretation upon what their God in their own judgment 
for an object of redemption, should have meant in place of what he did mean 
according to the context of Isa. 7:14:15:16, for the comfort of King Ahaz, and 
rears thereon an additional ' God with us " in downright defiance once again of 



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their own God's use of words in Gen. 2:17, Isa. 7:14:15:16, and 43:10 and Matt. 
1:23, and to their own God's utter chagrin in his disposal of Adam's case and 
prophecy for King Ahaz's comfort, and decree against additional Gods or 
Saviors, the church has furnished a sacrifice, an atonement, a Savior which each 
must confess with the mouth and believe in the heart that he arose from the 
dead in order to be saved from Original Sin, verified Rom. 10:9 and I Cor. 
15:21:22. 

It is an axiomatic moral truth that a disguised, perverted or fragmentary 
use of a narrative which makes void its sense and meaning, when confined to 
the original context, and such fragments are made use of in order to rear a doc- 
trine or belief, such a use totally vitiates such doctrine or belief of the impress 
of divinity. The doctrine of Original Sin is reared upon such disguise, — frag- 
mentary and perverted use of the words: ''On' the day thou eatest thereof 
thou shalt surely die, verified Gen. 2:17, which the narrator modifies Gen. 3:23 
by Adam's expulsion from Eden; therefore to use the threat without the modi- 
fication as narrated to establish Original Sin, the doctrine of Original Sin, reared 
thereon is vitiated of the impress of divinity and it is utter mockery to classify 
it as divine. The doctrine of redemption is reared upon such disguise, fragmen- 
tary and perverted use of the words: ''Behold a virgin shall conceive and bare 
a son and shall call his name "Immanuel. " Isa. 7:14, Matt. 1:22:23. There- 
fore the doctrine of redemption is vitiated of the impress of divinity; much 
less could a "God with us" reared from such a disguise fragment or perversion, 
bare the impress of the divinity. Notwithstanding, so infallible according to 
uninformed credulity are the decrees of the bishop founders of our Holy Religion 
in the making and unmaking of Gods who attributed the Holy Ghost as Giver 
of Life, and then made him Father of God the Son, verified Matt. 1:18, yet so 
elastic are the votes of church councils that in the year A. D. 447, the Holy 
Ghost was allowed by the church to derive his origin in part from God the Son; 
thus so infallible were those bishops' decrees that in just sixty-six years a son is 
tortured to originate his own father; that is on his father's side. On the mother's 
side, the word: "Virgin" of Isa. 7:14, B. C. 742, which was used as a sign 
ascribed to the Jewish God to express motherhood or a rhetorical flourish for 
time to indicate the termination of King Ahaz's fear of his present foes, Rezin 
and Pekah. Thus the words "Virgin" and "Immanuel" which were used to 
express duration, indicated by motherhood and off-spring from pregnancy 
until or just previous to the time when the off-spring should distinguish good 
from evil, or to utter speech; so that the words "Virgin" and "Immanuel" 
in the context, are used merely to indicate the period of three years. In other 
words, in less than three years. King Ahaz's foes should be dethroned. 

Now then we have the original decree and execution of Adam for life at 
hard labor as re-opened and re-adjudicated; we have Original Sin vicariously 
imputed to all mankind and redemption on condition, that in effect you confess 
and admit Original Sin and the remedy offered by the church, which is a sacri- 
fice displacing Adam's penance suffered under the Christians' God ; to the utter 
chagrin and downright mockery of the judgment, sentence, execution, meaning 
and prophecy of the Jewish God of the Old Testament in his own disposal of 
Adam's disobedience. 



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Now then fair play and honor among theives, is what should be contended 
for in this case. This dogma of Original Sin and object of redemption are each 
reared only upon the total wreck of the government of the Jewish God in his 
punishment of Adam; upon the utter nullification of his utterances of Isa. 
43:10:11, and prophecy of Isa. 7:14:15:16, ascribed by inspired writers to the 
Jewish God, later called God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, 
which makes up the Jewish God in both unity and trinity. But ^^ God with us " 
Matt. 1:23, or ''God the Son'^ unless confined to the trinity is reared in utter 
contradiction of Isa. 43:10:11, which expressly states: ''Neither shall there 
be any God after me. " And "besides me there is no Savior." 

And a partnership whatever its members may become afterwards are never 
enemies on the start; and that proves that this partnership firm was formed 
without the knowledge or consent of the partners; for the senior member, who 
is fifty years the younger brother in the firm, has suffered defeat and chagrin 
upon every promotion that the junior member or elder brother has won; which 
makes the younger brother, or God the Father, of less consequence than a 
dormant partner, for he has been backed down upon every advancement 
enjoyed by his elder brother, God the Son. If these partners had ever known 
each other, it would be like the fabulous Judas and Jesus drawing up partnership 
papers. The disposition of each cancels the other and both are cancelled by 
proofs already adduced before the bar of the Moral Law of the Supreme Being. 

So invulnerable is the intuition of right, enthroned in the human 
soul by the Supreme Being as a guide and guard against its desecration, that no 
power in the moral or secular universe can cancel or absolve an act of virtue, 
except the actor's own intention. Should all the theologians of earth as did 
the founders of the Christian Religion, whether by mistake or design decree an 
act of virtue sin or Original Sin, their decree before the bar of the Moral Law, . 
would be as precarious as in China is the life of a female infant, dedicated to the 
care of its mother-in-law. 

The Christian formula, Rom. 5:12: " Wherefore as by one man sin entered 
into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all 
have sinned. " This false, fraudulent and malicious libel upon Adam's virtue 
and its utter malignity launched against the entire human race by the church, 
must meet the chagrin that Adam's disobedience was admittedly so much a 
virtue, from the fact that a savior must be crucified to expiate precisely the 
same disobedience of Adam in a multiplied form; a virtue that the God issuing 
the command by his own judgment and sentence, was powerless to absolve. 
When christians adopt a God, they should stand by him; not annul his word and 
mock his decrees as they have done to rear Original Sin, and the object of redemp- 
tion for an offense already absolved, expiated and annuled by Adam's exile; 
and if Adam's disobedience so accords with the command of the Moral Law; 
that his exile from Eden could not absolve the virtue and that too under the 
decree of a God, much less could a sacrifice of a word personified as God, man 
or both, offered from the God's friends or enemies absolve the same act. This 
truth is self-evident. It is also self-evident that an act which cannot be made 
right, if commanded by a God, its disobedience being a moral necessity and a 



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virtue, the act of disobedience to such a command cannot be absolved even 
by the sacrifice of a God, or a third part of a Jewish God even while living in the 
guise of a human being. 

Axiomatic moral truth is the positive line of demarkation which separates 
all Gods as well as men, identified with immoral intention from the Supreme 
Being whose guide for intelligences is axiomatic moral truths comprised in 
the Moral Law. 

Do you ask how moral perfection and the normal balance of our natures 
may be acquired, cultivated and continued? The human soul is endowed with 
standards of its own; number is one of them; right is one; truth is one. The 
drill of the schools enjoined in the science of mathematics will equip the standard 
idea of number to perform its function through life; but what is being effectually 
done for the souFs standards of truth and right? Have the schools or churches 
a text book for the drill of the truth and right relations, unmixed with the 
false, as the school has to dicipline the numerical relation? No. Then the 
first duty of progressive man is to make one, both for the public schools and 
the church as well. Do you ask why the dawn of intelligence finds the average 
secular as well as professed christian so completely out of harmony with the 
Moral Law, which is the main law for the normal regulation of man's entire 
mature. The reason is obvious, creeds, dogmas, doctrines as well as Gods, the 
attributes of which are positively immoral in their influence, teaching and 
conduct, have been used by the chief, despot or tyrant to subject the masses 
to his arbitrary will and caprice, and to give his own short-sighted barbarous 
designs credence and currency. His priests teach the masses that the will of 
the chief is the will of their God, and 'Wice versa" and so extensive does this 
notion prevail that the divine notions of savages when intelligence dawns upon 
the student's mind, are found to dominate his entire nature, and for a long 
time must his feeble power of inference, his feeble grasp of intuitive truth and 
right meet the assaults of the prevailing deception, which the custom and habits 
of those engaged in the government of his tribe have implanted in him. 

At the present stage of the world's progress, truth and right, can only become 
a matter of course, and wrong and error a matter of chagrin, by subjecting the 
relations, truth and right, to artificial mechanical drill, by text-books comprising 
the Moral Law, with illustration and example, adapted to every grade of public 
instruction, from the primary to the profession inclusive. When the power 
of truth and right are given the same attention and advantage of text-books 
that prevails in mathematics for the power of number , wrong and falsehood, will 
be as much a matter of chagrin, as is witnessed among those not able to make 
correct change, or tell the hour of the clock. 

Intelligence, for its regulation, is as dependent upon the Moral Law, for 
its normal rectitude, as the bodily safety of the quadruped, is dependent upon 
instinct. Why has the use of number become a matter of course? And the 
use of truth and right is merely incidental or at a minimum? The reason is 
obvious: the church pretends to look after the truth and right relations, from 
the standpoint of the immoral, contained in the war-like legends of mythology, 
utterly shunning the Moral Law, which is supplanted with senseless dogmas, 



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as follows: The founders of the Christian Religion in order to pluck Original 
Sin from the story in Genesis, must first nullify the judgment and sentence which 
their adopted God imposed upon Adam for his absolution; and nothing so 
demoralizes a race, as to charge their own God with immoral or contradictory 
conduct, as an apology for their own practices. The christians must meet the 
chagrin that Adam's punishment from their own God was of non-effect; in 
other words, the bishops who founded the Christian Religion at the Court of 
Emperor Theodosius the Great; the said bishops, whose prowess was undaunted 
and whose votes were infallible, adopted the Jewish God of Genesis, but imme- 
diately upon accepting, the dogma of Original Sin, his decree concerning Adam's 
disobedience is made void, and like Samson, their God is shorn of his strength. 

But Original Sin has stood the test of fifteen centuries, among about five 
per cent of the earth's inhabitants, even though their own God, like Samson 
before the Philistines, was mocked and his judgments annulled, in order to 
make the delivery of Original Sin, over to the care and the keeping of the church 
which gave mankind Original Sin as the foundation of its divine barbarism; 
and by so doing have turned their own God into an object of ridicule and the 
Christian Proselyte into an object of pity, as expressed Rom. 5:12: ''Where- 
fore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin so death passed 
upon all men for that all have sinned. " And Matt. 1 : 18 to the end of the chapter 
attempts to show, how the object of redemption for that sin came into the 
world, by the words: ''Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when 
as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was 
found with child of the Holy Ghost. The Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph 
in a dream saying, she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name Jesus 
for he shall save his people from their sins. " And for Old Testament Authority, 
the narrator states: "Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which 
was spoken of the Lord" (Meaning their God) "By the prophet" (meaning 
Isaiah) and here in Matt. 1:23 is inserted bodily the verse of Isaiah 7:14 which 
states: "Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and 
they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. " 

Now there is no more conclusive proof against the divinity of a doctrine, 
than the fact that its origin is traceable to a disguise, and perversion of a narra- 
tive. The verse of Isa. 7:14, from which the founders of the Christian Religion, 
derived their "God with us" or Savior and Virgin Mary, from the mere apos- 
tatization of the words "Virgin" and "Immanuel" in downright perversion of 
the intention of the context ascribed to the Jewish God; the meaning and sense 
of verse fourteen being positively unknowable without its completion from the 
two following verses, viz.: Isaiah 7:14:15:16. Yet this clipped and fradulent 
currency of Isaiah 7:14, alone, is inserted bodily as verse Matt. 1:23, and this 
is the coin upon which the counterfeit stamp of divinity has by the church 
received its impress which at the point of the bayonet and the fiat of the church, 
has passed current for fifteen centuries among about five per cent of the earth's 
inhabitants; and all b}^ the positive nullification of the judgment, affirmation 
and prophecy ascribed by inspired writers to their own God. They have 
dethroned the Jewish God but worship has gone on upon the substitute trinity 



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set up by the church; yet he is permitted by the church to stand as the origin 
of the firm God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, with his 
utterances totally made void, which contradict Original Sin and redemption. 
The following is a sample of the use of words where a part is used in a sense to 
vitiate the whole; but are used by the church as a prophecy of the Jewish God, 
to rear God the Son as an object of redemption, verified Matt. 1:23. B. C. 742, 
Isa. 7:14:15:16, states: ''Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; 
behold a virgin shall conceive and bare a son and shall call his name Immanuel; 
butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose 
the good, for, before he shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the 
land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings, '^ which kings were 
Rezin, king of Syria and Pekah, king of Israel. The Lord himself by his prophet 
Isaiah, delivered the sign B. C. 742. Rezin perished B. C. 740, Pekah perished 
B. C. 739, verified 2 Kings, 16:9 and 15:30. This sign or rhetorical flourish for 
the comfort of King Ahaz, which means that within three years, his fear of 
present foes should cease. Considered as history or fiction, according to the 
narrative the sign was fulfilled and carried to completion within the time prophe- 
sied; that is, it was delivered B. C. 742; King Rezin perished B. C. 740, and King 
Pekah perished 739, which corresponds to the duration of time educed by the 
sign and the kings referred to. 

Now for the church to pervert this plain narrative by the apostatization 
of mere words to establish the dogma of redemption only exposes the fraud 
of which it is capable, and the utter ignorance of those upon whom it imposes 
its dogmas. 

We have witnessed what a struggle the founders of our Holy Religion 
suffered to furnish us with Original Sin, and what a joy and pride the Jewish 
God must have experienced in the surrender of Original Sin to the care and 
keeping of the church. He must have concluded that to absolve a virtue like 
Adam's was beyond his jurisdiction, since his judgment, sentence and execu- 
tion was reduced to utter nullity and impeachment, in order to rear Original 
Sin; so four thousand three hundred and eighty-five years after Adam's dis- 
obedience, he turns the whole matter of Original Sin and redemption over to 
the discretion of his church, which tries its hand at absolving once again Adam's 
disobedience, which exile under the Jewish God was powerless to expiate, and 
the church makes the attempt in open defiance of the axiomatic moral truth, 
that an act which cannot be made right, if commanded by a God, its disobedi- 
ence being a virtue, cannot be absolved by the sacrifice of a God, even when 
clothed with human flesh, so as to be crucified; so that to furnish a Savior an 
atonement, a sacrifice of a ''God with us" brought into the world by the illicit 
interpretation or apostatization of the word "Immanuel" used originally as 
an incident to indicate the period after birth for naming an infant, which the 
founders of the Christian Religion wrest of its original significance in the con- 
text, and interpret to mean " God with us " verified Matt. 1 :23, which is the most 
dastardly piece of work in the name of religion known to charlatan hypocrisy. 

B. C. 6, Luke 1:25 to 39 and B. C. 5, Matt. 1:18 to 25 inclusive, in which 
is to be found the narrative for the parentage, conception, birth, growth and 



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mission of the object of redemption, and Luke 1:26:27:31, B. C. 6, states: 
"That the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto the City of Gallilee, named 
Nazareth to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the House 
of David and the virgin's name was Mary; and the Angel said unto her, Behold! 
Thou shalt bring forth a son and shalt call his name Jesus, " Confirmed by cita- 
tion for prophetic verification from Isa. 7 :14, B. C. 742. And Matt. 1 :20 :21 :22 :23, 
B. C. 5, states: ''The Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, say- 
ing, Mary thy wife shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name Jesus, 
for he shall save his people from their sins. " And for prophetic verification 
the writer of Matt, states: ''Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled 
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying, Behold a virgin shall 
be with a child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted, is God with us;" notwithstanding, the same sign 
by the same God, previous to his reduction to fractions, was fulfilled B. C. 739, 
when King Pekah perished. Thus the said bishops make use of precisely the 
same God as prophet for their own perverted, illicit and fragmentary use of the 
sign in downright defiance and utter mockery of the intention of the context 
expressive of the time to expire before King Ahaz should be rid of his present 
foes, Rezin and Pekah. The original prophecy was delivered by the Jewish 
God, through the prophet Isaiah, B. C. 742, and its fulfillment took place when 
Pekah, the last of the two kings referred to suffered death, B. C. 739. That is 
to say the founders of our Holy Religion force precisely the same God to stand 
back of their perverted, fragmentary and falsifying scheme of redemption, at 
the expense of nullifying his own prophecy of Isa. 7:14:15:16, for the comfort 
of King Ahaz. 

Original Sin and redemption formulated I Cor. 15:22: "For as in Adam 
all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive, " has been published before the 
world for fifteen centuries, and the soundness of its origin has not been ques- 
tioned. In effect it is nothing short of the dogma of predestination, and man 
admits thereby himself a puppet of forces beyond his control, which if true, 
would forever settle the question of personal responsibility in the negative. 
Original Sin, which the Church of Christendom has reared upon the command 
and disobedience of Adam, during the first year of his existence and before 
Eve was made, B. C. 4004, from the words expressed Gen. 2:9:16:17, and Gen. 
3:17:22:23: "And out of the ground made, the Lord God, to grow every tree 
that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst 
of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the Lord God 
commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely 
eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil thou shalt not eat of 
it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. " Eve was not 
yet generated at all, for in the following verse Gen. 2:18, the Lord God solilo- 
quized that it is not good that man should be alone, "I will make a help-meet 
for him. '' And before Eve appears on the scene, Adam must give names to all 
the cattle and to the fowl of the air; "So the Lord God out of the ground formed 
every beast of the field and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam 
to see what he would call them, and whatsoever Adam called every living creature 



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that was the name thereof. '' You would naturally think Adam to be a very 
forward child in natural history to meet the task, at his age, of naming every 
beast of the field: " But for Adam was not found a help-meet for him. " Then 
follows the rib story and the formation of woman. ''And Adam said, she shall 
be called woman because she was taken out of man. " Just the opposite mode 
of proceedure gave rise to the Savior Jesus; that is Adam was the origin of Eve, 
and the Virgin Mary was the origin of Jesus. But that should stagger no one, 
since this Jewish God only shows his power by doing things in opposition to 
the Supreme Being; so that if a christian requires a devil in his theology, and 
the name devil stands for what opposes the Supreme Being, the Jewish God and 
the devil are identical in numerous instances in such regard. And since Adam 
and Jesus are to represent opposite conditions in theology expressed by the 
formula ''For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 
Wherefore as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the 
obedience of one shall many be made righteous. " But Gen. 3:17 are the words: 
"And unto Adam he" (meaning the Lord God) "said because thou hast heark- 
ened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded 
thee saying, thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. " And 
Gen. 3:22 are the words: "And the Lord God said, Behold! the man is become 
as one of us." (meaning the Gods) "to know good and evil, and now lest he put 
forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever; there- 
fore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground 
from whence he was taken; so he drove out the man, and placed at the east of 
the Garden of Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming sword, which turned every way 
to keep the way to the tree of life, of which he had been permitted to freely eat 
previous to his knowledge of good and evil. " And Gen. 5:5 states: "And all 
the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. " Now then if this 
story could be treated as the literal or the eventual history of the conduct of 
a God and a man than which no greater absurdity is possible, since this God 
from the act of Adam's disobedience cursed the ground to the growth of thorns 
and thistles, and consigned Adam to eat bread in the sweat of his face; yet upon 
his own admission that in knowing good and evil. Gen. 3:22: "The man has 
become as one of us, and lest he eat of the tree of life and live forever, " of 
which tree in the outset he was permitted to freely eat. " Therefore the Lord 
God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence 
he was taken. " If this is the Jewish God's genuine disposal of Adam's act of 
disobedience, is it not an offense, and an affront to his majesty; for his church 
to treat his disposal of Adam's case' with utter mockery and contempt by side- 
tracking it through the offering of God the Son to expiate the same solitary 
offense. It would look better for the church if in any manner it is bound by the 
moral law: " That in consideration of the punishment inflicted upon Adam for 
his obedience to the command of the Moral Law, even though Adam's act were 
in opposition to the command for indiscriminate ignorance imposed by what 
a Hebrew scribe had set up from his imagination as a God. It would look 
better for the church if its crucifiction of this Jewish God or a fraction of him 
had been confined to the punishment of the God himself, who had infringed the 



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Moral Law of the Supreme Being, instead of punishing Him in behalf of man- 
kind for Adam's positive obedience to the command of the Moral Law; but 
christian faith in their Jewish God only will remove such difficulties. 

Viewed in a more reasonable light, it looks as though the church for the 
punishment that this Jewish God inflicted upon Adam of 929 years in exile, 
was crucifying this God or a fraction of him for his offense in the immoral treat- 
ment of Adam. But to blind the Proselyte outright^ the church pretends that 
this God willingi}^ surrendered himself to the ignominous death of the cross, 
in order to fulfill scripture, that is, to complete the Jewish God's half fi^nished 
disposal of Adam's case; how thoughtful of the church; and how belittleing 
to its God. The context as expressed Matt. 26:54, should God the Son resist 
crucifiction, he is made by his inspired biographers to answer: ''But how then 
shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be." And Rom. 5:19 states: 
''For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obed- 
ience of one shall many be made righteous. " And Heb. 5:8 states: "Though 
he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. " 
That is this Jewish God sets the example for obedience by a surrender of one- 
third portion of himself to crucifiction as expressed Phillip. 2:6:8: "Who being 
in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God; and became 
obedient unto death even the death of the cross." And John 10:17:18, states: 
"Therefore doth my father love m.e because I lay down my life that I might 
take it again; no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself; I have 
power to lay it down; and I have power to take it again. " So that it is manifest 
that for the uncompromising necessity of misguided obedience, the writers were 
ready to sacrifice anything, even to one-third of their own Jewish God; and to 
compel him in order to fulfill scripture, to surrender implicit assent to the death 
of the cross; and beside the fulfillment of Isa. 7:14, the object of redemption 
must have originated in part for the disobedience of Adam, which made Adam 
as one of the several Gods, according to the context, and generated a fear in 
the others that should he eat of the tree of life, he would live forever, which 
would not do at all. So that the masses are brought to a realization of the 
all-important necessity of rendering indefensible obedience to the commands of 
the Jewish God. But if their God had been the Supreme Being, there would 
have been no immoral commands to stumble over; for his decrees are all, both 
moral as well as secular. It is axiomatic that wherever you find the immoral 
in a God, such must be a counterfeit. But the Jewish God abandoned his 
threat of death and substituted a sentence for hard labor for life; which Adam 
served out according to the legend of Gen. 5:5: "And all the days that Adam 
lived were nine hundred and thirty years. " But in utter mockery of its adopted 
Jewish God, the church ignores his disposal of Adam's case, tacks back on the 
abandoned threat of death and rears thereon the dogma of Original Sin. And 
such desoptic and arbitrary treatment of Adam, is the basis of the dogma of 
predestination, which as a doctrine was first subjected to discussion during the 
latter part of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries ; that is, it was held 
by St. Jerome, author of the Latin Vulgate, completed A. D. 404, and nearly 
all of the Latin church. That the Jewish God, the choice of their adoption 



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among many other Gods of equal power and veracity, not only predestined 
that the disobedient regardless of any moral aspect, should suffer eternal pun- 
ishment and that the guilt and transgression for which they were punished is 
predestined, as was Adam's disobedience from the beginning of the world, and 
it is declared by secular history that Augustine of Hippo, St. Jerome, Thomas 
Aquinas, and nearly all of the Laitn church are its advocates; so that if you 
find the dogma of predestination in any book of the New Testament, you may 
rest assured that it was not written before the time of St. Jerome, author of the 
Vulgate or translator of the Septaugint into the Latin language, and St. 
Jerome was born A. D. 342, ; died A. D. 420; and that he began the translation 
A. D. 389 and completed it in fifteen years, or A. D. 404; and since he is the 
author of predestination, he will be likely to use what he finds in the Septaugint 
to substantiate the doctrine of predestination in the Latin Vulgate. 

Rom. 4:8, states: '^Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute 
sin. " Which is an attempt at the substitution of the Moral Law, with an im- 
moral faith. Backed by Ex. 33:19, Rom. 9:14 to 24: states: '^Is there unright- 
eousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on 
whom I will have mercy, and will have compassion on whom I will have com- 
passion. So that it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth, but of 
God that showeth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for 
this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, 
and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. " Could this 
possibly be the language of the Supreme Being, his dictation or inspiration? 
Never. The words: ''Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy; 
and whom he will he hardeneth. '' Is there any lack of predestination here for 
the mere puppet man in the hands of this God. Then follow the words : '' Thou 
wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his 
will? Nay, but O men, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the 
thing formed (mian is a thing and not a free, moral, rational being, under the 
Jewish God), say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Hath 
not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto 
honor, and another unto dishonor, what if God willing to show his wrath and 
to make his power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of 
wrath fitted to destruction; and that he might make known the riches of his 
glory on the vessels of his mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. " 
Rom. 11 :5:7, '' Even so then at this present time, also there is a remnant accord- 
ing to election of grace. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
seeketh for. But the election hath obtained it; and the rest were blinded." 
And Rom. 11:8:27 to 35: ''According as it is written, God hath given them 
a spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears, that they should not 
hear until this day. This is my covenant unto them when I shall take away 
their sins. As concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes; but as 
touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sakes. For the gifts 
and calling of God, are without repentance. For God hath concluded them all 
in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches, 
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are his judgments 



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and his w&js past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, 
or who hath been his councilor, " if not his anonymous writers of the New Testa- 
ment, who penned the infamous libel of Rom. 5:12, which states: ''Wherefore 
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin so death passed upon 
all men for that all have sinned. " But by means of the Jewish Gods arbitrary 
fiat, he has elected or predestined certain individuals to be saved; and this 
Jewish God totally ignores even faith and good works on their part; but from 
his arbitrary will, predestines some to eternal life and holds them in a state of 
goodness, from which they cannot fall or perish. The rest of mankind are 
doomed under this God, to perish in both soul and body in Hell fire forever. 
Why go to foreign lands to find false Gods, when you have at home such Gods 
as cannot be surpassed in caprice and malevolence. A fiend than which there 
is no greater conceivable by the human mind. Such a God with all who pretend 
to be in the least moral should be abandoned and displaced with the perfections 
of the Supreme Being. 

Up to the time of Emperor Valens, and during his reign, baptism alone 
was the prevailing religious ceremonial ordinance of the empire. Baptism 
alone was first used as a ceremonial of the church militant, under Emperor 
Constantine, the Great, who was sole ruler of the empire from A. D. 323 to 337. 
Baptism was the exclusive ceremonial for absolution until A. D. 381. Then was 
convoked the great council of Constantinople under Emperor Theodosuis, the 
Great, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, was president of the council, in which the 
work respecting the origin and mission of the Savior Jesus Christ, was taken up 
and formulated into dogmas. A. D. 325, at the council of Nicea, three hun- 
dred and eighteen bishops voted on God the Son, which caused Emperor 
Constantine to exclaim that: ''What three hundred bishops have ordained, 
is no other than the seed of the only Son of God; but the council at Rimmini 
and Selucia A. D. 359, comprised of six hundred bishops and prodigious num- 
ber of priests, annulled the acts of council of Nicea, of A. D. 325. But twenty- 
two years later, or A. D. 381, the case of Jesus Christ was taken up again for 
consideration and the work of the council of Rimmini and Selucia, was anathe- 
matized or made void. "The bishop of Rome sent deputies and at this council 
it was decreed that Jesus Christ was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin 
Mary; was crucified, was buried, the third day rose again, and sits at the right 
hand of the Father; that the Holy Ghost is the Lord and Giver of Life," veri- 
fied Matt. 1:18. The Holy Ghost was voted to proceed from: "God the 
Father, who with God the Father, and God the Son, is to be worshipped and 
glorified. ' Who were the active church men during this period, or from A. D. 
381, until the New Testament was written? St. Gregory of Nazianzus, was 
president of the council of A. D. 381, St. John Chrysostom of A. D. 347-407; 
St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, died A. D. 397; St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, of 
A. D. 340-397; St. Patrick, of A. D. 309-432; St. Jerome, of A. D. 342-420; and 
St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. It is claimed that St. Jerome procured the 
Book of Hebrews of a Nazerene, A. D. 397; and the Book of Revelation, was 
made canonical the same year, which makes it look very much like the produc- 
tion of St. John Chrysostom, as do the other New Testament writings given the 



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name John or St. John, as their author. It was given out that the Book of 
Hebrews was given to St, Jerome by a Nazerene of Berea; and since it contains 
the dogmas, decreed by St. Gregory, Chrysostom, Martin, Ambrose, Patrick 
and Jerome, at the council of A. D. 381; and since it contains the doctrine of 
predestination, Heb. 6:17, Rom. 11:29, the evidence is sufficient that the entire 
New Testament is the work of the above named Bishops, or their anonymous 
contemporary coadjutors, who were convoked by Theodosius, the Great, A. D. 
381, into a council at Constantinople. The New Testament could not have 
been written by fishermen, or men not acquainted with the Septaugint or 
Vulgate and the decrees of council of A. D. 381, since the Septaugint was 
unknown to the Latin language previous to the appearance of the Latin Vul- 
gate, which was written from A. D. 389 to A. D. 404. The formula I Cor. 
15:22, which states: ''For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be 
made alive, " demands some knowledge of the Old Testament for its origin as 
does the dogmas of the Original Sin and redemption. 

The founders of our Holy Religion declared that to admit error even when 
apparent in the Holy Scriptures, was tantamount to a charge of ignorance or 
negligence against the Holy Ghost who inspired it. ''Augustine once said to 
Jerome, if any error should be admitted to have crept into the Holy Scriptures, 
what authority would there be left them. If you even discuss the integrity 
of the scriptures, many will doubt. '' Nevertheless Original Sin founded on 
Gen. 2:17, and confirmed Rom. 5:12, is an utter perversion of the threat of 
death commuted to Adam's exit from Eden; and the object of redemption, 
reared from Isa. 7:14 and confirmed Matt. 1:18 to 23 inclusive, is an utter per- 
version of the time relation of the three years to expire B. C. 739, II Kings 15:30, 
which by the death of Pekah, was fulfilled. Thus to establish the dogmas of 
Original Sin and redemption, the entire moral universe is set at naught, and 
the immoral is displayed as a general rule that passes current, and virtue is 
the exception that must be expiated. And an unmistakable example is fur- 
nished by the fact that Adam's infantile disobedience, for which the Jewish 
God sentenced him to exile from Eden for absolution, which sentence the 
bishops of the church treat with utter contempt, by furnishing a human, divine 
or word personification of a sacrifice 4385 years later to absolve precisely the 
same act. Just as though the disposal of Adam's case by the Jewish God of 
their own adoption was a jest, a farce, a satire, a burlesque or utter mockery; 
just as though Adam's act was so much a virtue that his exile by the decree of 
this God could not absolve it; just as though the flood of the Jewish God to 
erase from the earth any vestige or remnant of Adam's act, which might be 
lurking in his descendants, was a mere rapsody of words, a poem of human 
fancy, an imitation, a myth arising from the imagination, and if the exile and 
flood of the Jewish God in unity is powerless to completely eradicate Adam's 
act, it being so perfect a virtue, much less could one-third part of the same God, 
even clothed in human flesh and sacrificed, absolve it. Just as though the oath 
to bless all nations ascribed to the Jewish God, was a farce delivered in consider- 
ation of Abraham's obedience in the attempt to make a burnt offering of his 
only begotten son; an intention to murder in downright defiance of the Moral 



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Law, So complete was Abraham s reconciliation in yielding his indefensible 
■ obedience to the command of pretended authority, that he deigned not to 
obey at the expense of intentional murder, which in the domain of the Supreme 
Being is positively immoral. Then just to show the actual degree of this God's 
morality as exhibited by his inspired writers, for mankind to imitate, he makes 
oath in view of Abraham's intentional sacrifice that in Abraham's ''seed shall 
all nations be blessed, " all of which the creation of the dogma of Original Sin, 
revived from an earlier epoch, positively sets at naught. Yet in view of the 
utter failure of the Jewish God by the foregoing exploits, as Adam's exile, the 
flood and oath to bless, the bishops of the church seek to rescue this Jewish 
God from the unfortunate predicament in which they have landed him. Say 
they, if as a whole he is powerless, by exile, flood or oath to absolve Adam's 
disobedience, we must reduce him to fractions or a trinity, as though a fraction 
could achieve what the whole could not; and if Adam's act as a whole, cannot 
be absolved, we must reduce it to fractions, or Original Sin, which is Adam's 
sin made infinitely divisible and fractional in all, and its blighting germs encircle 
the earth, so that each person born or to be born throughout the earth forever, 
must bear his aliquot share, formulated by the christian words Rom. 5:12: 
"Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin so 
death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. " Thus is the Jewish God 
and the act of Adam reduced to fractions. Next the Jewish God is reduced to 
a trinity in order that a fraction may suffer death upon the cross, so as not to 
inperil the belief of the Proselyte in the remaining two-thirds ; like the king, 
who suffered amputation of a hand to save one of his son's, whose conduct had 
forfeited both; so this God yields one-third of himself to suffer death for man- 
kind, who are victims of Adam's sin of disobedience, for which this God's 
judgment for exile m^ust have proven futile to absolve. 

The Jewish God had various appellations as God, Lord, and Jehovah, but 
when reduced to a trinity this God at once became forever after known as 
three ; namely, God "the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; each 
of these being one-third or a fractional part of the original Jewish God. 

At the council of bishops A. D. 381, with St. Gregory of Nazianzus in the 
chair, God the Holy Ghost, was voted to proceed from God the Father, which 
would be one-third taken from one-third, leaves nothing, which equals God the 
Holy Ghost. God the Son was voted to be incarnate by God the Holy Ghost 
of the Virgin Mary; an hypostatic union arising from nothing and the aposta- 
tization of the words ''Immanuel" and ''Virgin" of Isa. 7:14, and A. D. 431, 
God the Father was made by vote of council at Ephesus to have originated 
from the apostatization of the word "Virgin " of Isa. 7 : 14 to the words : " Virgin 
Mary" or "Mary the Mother of God." Then as though God the Holy Ghost 
was incomplete, being merely one-third taken from one-third, and thus his 
origin was reduced to nothing. It seemed good to the bishops of the council 
of Spain A. D. 447, that God the Holy Ghost, should proceed from both God 
the Father and God the Son, which is more reasonable, that is, one-third from 
two-thirds, leaves one-third; and throughout the entire process of the apostatiza- 



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tion of words into God's, and the Mother of God's, and the process of incarna- 
tion or the hypostatic union arising thereon, not one word is said about the 
Jewish God, as the whole number from which the trinity or fractions were taken; 
but each fraction is made to help originate the other, ultimately yielding the 
Holy Ghost from the remaining two-thirds or Father and Son, which in effect 
left the original Jewish God in his entirety to revert to the Jewish race ; and thus 
the Holy Trinity was reared from the apostatization of mere words, divested 
of all meaning; by Pagan bishops after the order of Paganism as Nestorious, 
Patriarch of Constantinople, maintained. 

But God the Son, Heb. 2:9-10: ''Was made lower than the angels for 
the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of 
God, should taste death for every man; for it became him to make the Captain 
of their salvation perfect through suffering. " — ^The origin of the doctrine of 
Castigation — if one-third of the trinity is made lower than the angels to be 
consistent, the remaining two-thirds must suffer the fate of their fellow, since 
by Phil. 2:6, and John 10:33:36, God the Son: ''Thought it not robbery to be 
equal with God" the Father, things equal to the same thing are equal to each 
other; hence, by axiomatic truth, each fraction of the Holy Trinity are lower 
than the angels, and unless the Supreme Being is lower than the angels, he is 
not in this Trinity at all; but it is absurd to classify Him with this trinity of 
Pagan Gods lower than angels. However since the Bible makes one member 
in the God-Head lower than angels, it follows by logical necessity since they 
are equal with each other, all are lower than the angels ; and that lets the Supreme 
Being out of it altogether. 

The Supreme Being thus uncontaminated with any other being furnished by 
theology, is sufficient for every moral or secular emergency of thought. Besides, 
the Supreme Being could not be shipped about between two Cherubims on a 
cart drawn by oxen, as was the case of the Jewish God of Hosts. 

The entire universe of the Supreme Being is taxed to supply a man with 
his senses, faculties and other powers. The sense of touch, taste, smell, hear- 
ing and seeing, are termed bodily senses. The senses act upon the mind and 
furnish mankind with an impulse to think as they are moved or inclined. The 
faculties are sense, conscious and noumenal perception; memory, fancy and 
imagination; conception, reason and judgment; these are termed faculties of 
the soul, which if trained, direct the senses ; otherwise, the senses, according to 
their natures direct them. There are twelve necessary or regulative ideas, 
which education and drill will develop into as many fundamental systems of 
knowledge; to which thought consciously or sub-consciously makes reference, 
whether the store of knowledge is impoverished, neglected or copiously sup- 
plied. These regulative ideas are truth, right, space, time, beauty, infinity, 
matter, mind, cause, resemblance, existance and number. The use of these 
necessary ideas for thought, might in one sense be compared to emphasis 
upon a particular word, of the familiar sentence: "Are you going to town 
to-day, " when one word is emphasized the others are suppressed. Now then 
these twelve regulative ideas of entities of the soul, are the great sentence of 
human thought and knowledge, if one or more is emphasized all the others are 



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suppressed, understood or implied in every act of thought. The regulative 
idea ''number/' is the only one of the twelve, that a proper set of text-books 
for its drill and development, are made a public use of. For the development 
of this power, thanks be to the ancients, for an arithmetic, which furnishes 
our schools with a text-book from which our concrete numerical wants may 
be supplied with knowledge and correction. The mind constantly looks to 
this source for correction, either to be satisfied or disappointed and finally 
abandoned; a consideration, from which may be seen at once, the necessity of 
educating these powers with artificial mechanical drill. 

The entities, truth, right, resemblance, cause and existence, which the 
mind uses for constant reference, are just as essential as, ''number" and a 
store of ready knowledge in reference to each, for the ramifications of thought, 
is indespensible for a morally equipped intelligence, and the remaining six 
which are, mind, time, space, beauty, matter and infinity, being each involved 
proximately or remotely in every act of thought, a store of knowledge concern- 
ing each to which the mind may refer, is as necessary as a store of provisions 
to satisfy hunger or water to slake the thirst. 

Why subject the powers to mechanical drill and discipline because that 
is the only way that their use can become effectual; these powers are not 
structural instincts, they are powers to be evoked and educated for constant 
reference, to satisfy the ramifications of thought and to supply the place of 
instincts, which evolution has made rudimentary; there is only one power at 
present and that is number, which is adequately disciplined or equipped to 
meet the necessary exingences of life; every boy, girl, man or woman, should 
make a special struggle to furnish the powers, truth and right, with knowledge 
sufficient to become expert in their conscious use. If the parents set the example 
the child will delight to follow, a wholesome exercise of these powers have their 
attendant joys; but the great end of all discipline is to achieve the soul's eternal 
perfection. 

But to return, there is no apology for the renunciation of sin; the mere 
animal repairs its conscious mistakes with invincible determination, but if a 
sin or virtue even may be vicariously imputed, for thought, the entire working 
order of the universe is changed; if the entire race can be charged with sin 
from an original ancestor, it is valid to inquire under what God's dominion 
arises such a custom; the moral law in no possible manner can give me credit 
for the virtue, or hold me amenable for the sin of another; and if the sin imputed 
turns out to be a virtue, as was the case of the disobedience of Adam, to a 
command enjoining ignorance and her twin sister, oppression, the Moral Law 
cannot be appealed to for correction. But for the sake of clearing up the matter 
and proving the utter immorality of the dogma of redemption, provisionally 
grant, that Adam's act of disobedience was a misdemeanor; the remedy of the 
christian to absolve the tort is the unqualified assent of the Proselyte to the 
crucifiction of one Jesus Christ, which in theory, practice and belief, is becoming 
a participtant in a felony, which at best, could be merely expelling a lesser sin 
with a greater; and the person would remain as wicked as ever; now if a felony 
will not absolve a tort or misdemeanor, provisionally admitted, much less can 



22 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

it absolve a virtue as has Adam's disobedience already been proven; and if the 
subject for absolution is made as wicked by assenting to a felony to absolve a 
misdemeanor or tort, how much greater must be his wickedness in the attempt 
to absolve a virtue with homicide or a felony; he m.ust be at least 'Hwo-fold 
more the child of Hell" than as though he had rejected such a remedy outright; 
must he not? 

In B. C. 1490; Lev. 17:11, is stated: '^It is the blood that maketh an 
atonement for the soul; but Heb. 10:4-6, A. D. 397, A. D. 64 for safety, states: 
''For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. ' Then Heb. 
10:9-10, states: ''He taketh away the first that he may establish the second. 
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus 
Christ once for all. " 

On the supposition of progress, it is as natural that ideas of moral integrity, 
should be as opposed to the despotism of mere indiscriminate obedience, as 
truth is opposed to falsehood. In primitive races since the chief requires no 
other discipline than obedience to his orders, regardless of any moral considera- 
tions whatever, consequently it should be expected that writers about a God 
or departed Chief, used for a God as was Moses, Ex. 7:1, would eulogize and 
punish disobedience, however slavishly immoral, as is the case in the narrative 
of Adam, Abraham and his God; but to attempt to attain arbitrary obedience, 
or to eulogize punishment for disobedience as does the New Testament from 
first to last for that inflicted upon Adam, since his disobedience was to a 
command enjoining ignorance, and is positively commanded by the Moral Law; 
and still, for the church, to insist upon an atonement for such disobedience, 
such, as a creed, is met with the chagrin of an atonement for virtue; which 
brings the Christian Religion into ridicule and contempt by every scholar of 
morals or ethics the world over. Such a religion is less discreet than the attempt 
to retain a decayed tooth, when a new one has pushed it aside. What Christian- 
dom should do, and insist upon from its clergy, is to let the absurdities of savage 
life in matters of superstition go; there is truth enough to keep them busy, 
without the ridiculous attempt to retain from the infant prattlings of savages, 
the immoral. 

It is axiomatic that an act which cannot be made wrong, even if prohibited 
by a God, its disobedience being a virtue, such disobedience cannot be absolved 
by the sacrifice of a God; much less by the sacrifice of an hybrid procreation, 
reared and wrested by means of the apostatization of the word "Immanuel" 
originally used in the abstract to signify the naming period of an infant as a 
rhetorical land-mark in the passing of time, which an infallible church council, 
wrested of its meaning in the original context, and interpreted to signify "God 
with us, " or God the Son, the second person in the trinity, who in doctrinal 
fiction passes the ordeal of crucifiction as a sacrifice for Original Sin, verified 
Heb. 10:10, which states: "We are sanctified through the offering of the body 
of Jesus Christ once for all. ' 

In the moral world there are no indifferent actions; it is equally axiomatic 
that there are no indifferent thoughts. It is axiomatic that one sin cannot be 



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expelled with another, even though that other is evoked, from the unbridled 
impression of an immoral narrative, or an illicit hope. 

The dogma of Original Sin, which by the Moral Law is founded upon an 
act of its own sanction, in so far as disobedience to a command enjoining ignor- 
ance is concerned; that is to sa}^ if Adam during his first year or at his age, 
was capable of doing wrong as the infliction of punishment indicates, he was 
both capable of doing right, and of being responsible for his acts, and if capable 
of doing right and did right, enjoined by, both the capability and Moral Law, 
his act was the ultimate of moral perfection. Now then, for a church council 
of A. D. 381, to furnish a sacrifice from the illicit use of Isa. 7:14, or elsewhere, 
to absolve such perfection, even though the sacrifice was subjected to a sham 
or fictitious crucifiction, and is assented to by the Proselyte; such indefensible 
submission to circumvention and libel upon the right is a sin in itself, where 
otherwise, there was no sin; next, the indefensible assent to even a narrated 
pantomimic or mythical crucifiction, for an act virtue is a theoretical assent to 
judicial murder, which for the soul, is a theoretical crime; and for thought even, 
is positively immoral, and is a sin in itself. Thus the attempt to reconcile or 
identify a God attributed with such pranks by primitive man, with the Supreme 
Being of moral intelligence, would necessitate a collision. What would be a 
sin of disobedience against the God of Adam, a savage chief, despotism or the 
Court of Emperor Theodosius the Great, for moral intelligence would be a 
virtue and would be positively commanded by the Moral Law of the Supreme 
Being. Heb. 9:22, states that ''without the shedding of blood there is no 
remission. ^' But if we take the guidance of human life away from the realm 
of the superstition of primitive savages, and place it under the supervision of 
rational moral intelligence. In the place of dogma-loving and truth-hating 
christians, with the soul-blighting formula of Rom. 5:12, for a guide, which 
states: ''Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by 
sin so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned, " you can rear truth- 
respecting and law-abiding free, moral, rational intelligences, and obedience 
to the Moral Law will sustain the soul with virtue, peace and joy, and harmony 
enters into the world, and life by harmony, so life passes upon all men by that 
all become perfect; and by the recognition that the Supreme Being is author 
of the Moral Law, which you obey, respect and reserve, you have a religion 
than which there is none more pure and perfect. 

What instinct is to less capable intelligences, rationality and moral recti- 
tude, is to self-conscious intelligences. The indefensible attempt of modern 
Christianity is to reconcile the pious tactics of savage life, and the rectitude of 
a moral, rational life, scorning the use of the Moral Law in their work, which 
Moral Law effects a cancellation of evil under any guise; that is, they insist 
on the retention of the senseless creeds of savages, because such antics and 
pranks are coupled with the word God. And what is the outcome? The Orig- 
inal Sin of Adam and of A. D. 381, reared b}^ the council of Emperor Theodosius, 
when subjected to the light of the Moral Law, for free, moral and rational intel- 
ligences, is a virtue ; and a Savior to atone for virtue is an absurdity than which 
there can be no greater. 



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Individual notions generally arise without personal investigation from the 
prevailing notions of the environment; if the nation is called Christian, there 
will be secular and professed Christians. The secular Christian blindly hopes 
sometime to become a professed chrristian; both take for granted, wholly upon 
authority in utter contradiction of reason and the Moral Law, that the pro- 
fessed christian is right, and it is only a question of being such, whether or not 
the individual can be saved or absolved from Original Sin. Both assent to 
creeds which they assume are right without personal investigation, and in 
utter ignorance of their illicit and indefensible origin; and since to be a pro- 
fessed christian is proffered the opportunity of unloading one's personal care- 
lessness and demerits upon another; and the secular christian sees how com- 
fortable the professed christian must be, with another on whom to shift the 
responsibility for his acts, the double allurement of environmental authority 
and a disposition to get rid of the sin on hand, join forces, and the secular becomes 
the professed christian. 

The church furnishes a creed, which at the very outset staggers every 
impulse to investigate by its free use of the words, ''God the Father, ' "God the 
Son" and ''God the Holy Ghost" and the fabulous exploits ascribed to them. 
A moral life is at a minimum with the professed christian to begin with, for the 
secular christian is told before his decision to become a professed, that morality 
cannot absolve him from Original Sin; so that a moral life is side-tracked on the 
start. 

But be it known, that the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, is the only 
absolute and positive line of demarkation between the true and false, whether 
the power of resemblance be directed upon Gods, Saviors, angels or men; as 
well as between true and false creeds, dogmas and doctrines, and the Moral 
Law is the positive guide with which to detect a genuine or counterfeit inspira- 
tion, used in the name of a God to give license, credence and currency to the 
immoral conduct coveted by rulers. 

To the Supreme Being belongs the moral government of the universe, 
and for man this thought lies at the very threshhold or foundation of his being, 
consequently any God, Savior, angel or man, identified with immoral conduct, 
is immoral, and unless the immoral is renounced as soon as realized or becomes 
a matter of consciousness, for such to pose as a Proselite of the Supreme Being, 
is to play the role of self-annihilating hypocrisy. The man that trangresses 
the Moral Law, must meet the avenges of the destruction, harmony and equil- 
ibrium of his entire nature, which nature is a counterpart, correlate 
or growth of the universe; and the unfortunate Proselyte of a counter- 
feit immoral God must be content to lead a life in positive defiance of the moral 
government of this universe. Every force of the rational nature of man depends 
upon intelligence for direction, and intelligence for direction depends upon the 
Moral Law; and the Moral Law is an attribute or manifestation of the Supreme 
Being. Abraham s obedience was exhibited at the risk of the actual intentional 
murder of his own son, which shows the true estimate in which obedience was 
held at that age, even out- weighing murder itself; and a command even for 
perpetual ignorance if disobeyed as was the case in the story of Adam, was 



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threatened with death; and since such disobedience was threatened with 
death, the immorality of the command being wholly inconsequential, like 
the tactics in army discipline, wherein disobedience by an inferior officer is met 
with certain death; so likewise does the inspired narrative of the Jewish God 
exact indefensible obedience from his subjects, so that Adam's acquired knowl- 
edge of good and evil contrary to command, had aroused such an enmity in 
this God, against his progeny, that he afterwards drowned them with flood, 
and burned them with fire and brimstone even while they were obeying his 
orders, as laid down to Adam for the indiscriminate revel in good and evil; 
and not until this God was perfectly satisfied that Abraham without fear or 
shadow of turning would have sacrificed his only begotten son as a mark of 
obedience, and unfaltering allegiance,such as other pagans displayed to their (jods, 
did this Jewish God make oath, that, for such immoral servility that is to say, 
obedience at the expense of murder, would he grant his blessing upon all nations 
of the earth, and by as much as the sin of murder out-weighs the sin of ignorance 
by so much should this God's blessing out- weigh his curse; since only upon such 
blood-thirsty consideration is he moved at all. 

But what about the believers and followers of such Gods? Why, it is 
axiomatic that the immorality of a God as depicted by his priests, is the measure 
of the morality of the believers or followers of such a God ; that is the individuals 
of a nation will be no more moral than the God or Gods furnished that nation 
by its priesthood; Job 4:17, states, ''Shall a man be more just than God." 
''Shall a man be more pure than his maker;' hence the imperative necessity 
of revising from time to time immoral conceptions of virtue punishing and 
vice protecting gods. It was an axiom of the Arabians, Prov, 29:12, that "if 
a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked, ' also Rom. 3 :7 are the words 
^'For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, 
why am I yet also judged a sinner?" Also are narrated the christian words 
"If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant," verified I Cor. 15:38. Thus 
a God or trinity of gods that command ignorance through their inspired writers ; 
that command obedience at the expense of knowledge ; at the expense of feloni- 
ous intent to slaughter human life, that would arrest the pictorial disobedience 
ascribed to Adam, which setting aside the Moral Law, at the worst could only 
be a misdemeanor; and then to expiate that misdemeanor, made transmissible 
by the church to all the inhabitants of the earth, as descendants from Adam, 
with the unqualified assent of each to the pictorial murder of Christ as a condi- 
tion precedent to the removal of that misdemeanor in order to gain Heaven; 
in other words, to remove a theological misdemeanor the Proselyte must partici- 
pate in a theological felony, that is to say, a theoretical felony is made real by 
unjustifiable assent and belief which is sin in itself, all of which cries loudly 
for reform; all of which means for the masses that in order to clear themselves 
from the church imputed misdemeanor of disobedience totally regardless of the 
moral or immoral nature of the command, totally regardless whether the com- 
mand is for the discrimination or not of good and evil; but the imputed misde- 
meanor in question was for the disobedience of a command prohibiting the 
knowledge of good and evil, which knowledge is as essential for the rectitude 



26 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

of human conduct to which individual acts may be referred for correction, as a 
knowledge of arithmetic is essential to make correct change; that is, a prohibi- 
tion to consider the effects upon man of a knowledge of good and evil, in order 
to intelligently discriminate and be able to choose the good and reject the evil; 
and because, as the story goes, Adam rejected such a virulent profanation of 
his powers and emphasizes his rejection by disobedience to such an immoral 
command; and in its short-sightedness because the word God is used in the 
immoral connection, the church takes his case in hand and pronounces the act 
of disobedience to so base a command. Original Sin, which it imputes to Adam's 
descendants or all mankind. Then the church in order to rectify this imputed 
affront to its imperial and immoral dignity in behalf of its adopted God, makes 
the offense infinitely divisible and fractional, and furnishes a victim in the 
nature of a Savior as a sacrifice to atone for it "' once for all. ' 

But a Savior at all is in open and positive defiance of this Jewish God's 
utterance from the inspired pen of Isaiah 43:10:11, which states, '^ Before me 
there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me; I even I, am the Lord; 
and beside me there is no Savior.' This utterance was delivered B. C. 712, 
or thirty j^ears later than Isaiah s time riddle from which the church originated 
their Savior, verified Isa. 7:14, B. C. 742, Matt. 1:23, that is to say, the bishops 
of Theodosius council, reared a Savior to atone for Original Sin, the sin being 
Adam's obedience to the Moral Law, which is a virtue, and it is an axiomatic 
truth that a virtue is a power of the soul that no moral or secular intelligence 
in the universe can absolve or transmute into vice, but the moral violence 
suffered by the one from whose nature the virtue arises; in other words, virtue 
of character is eternal except as its one time possessor by thought or deed cancels 
it himself. 

Even the nine hundred and twenty-nine years of hard labor, could not 
absolve or cancel Adam's virtue, since his act was in obedience to the Moral 
Law; and such is an implied admission by the church, from its attempt to 
absolve precisely the same sin again ''once for all," which would be a second 
penalty for a single offense, were the original act a sin at all, in the place of 
virtue, verified Heb. 10:10, which states, ''We are sanctified through the offer- 
ing of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. " Adam having already served 
time to expiate the offense under the God's decree in question, formulated, 
'Tor as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive. ' Nor could 
the church absolve Adam's single act of virtue, should she add to her list of 
victims the six thousand patriots impaled upon crosses, which decked the 
Appain Way from Capua to Rome. 

But unfortunate for the religion founded on an imputed sin to all men, 
since the original act of disobedience from which the im^puted sin was derived 
to the eternal chagrin of the church, has turned out to be a positive, unassail- 
able virtue, and being so much a virtue that if the judgment of the Jewish God 
in condemning Adam to exile for a term of nine hundred and twenty-nine years 
of hard labor, utterly failed to absolve it, much less will a pictorial sacrifice or 
crucifiction of a single divided third of this God absolve the same act. So 
positively undeviating are the decrees of the Supreme Being for the right, that 



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all this useless talk about Original Sin, and transmitted sin of Adam, the act in 
question being a positive virtue, all the punishment at hard labor or sacrifices 
on crosses that was ever narrated from fact or fiction, could never expiate or 
absolve the slightest act of virtue. 

If Adam's act of virtue was successfully absolved by his term in exile, 
why should the church still persist that a second attempt be made four thousand 
three hundred and eighty-six years later to absolve the same act with a sacrifice 
of a God in the guise of a man? 

Sins must have been scarce in those early days, to require two remedies 
to absolve one sin, that is, Adam s exile from Eden and the crucifiction of a 
Savior four thousand three hundred and eighty-five years later, and the sin, 
a virtue at that, when tried by the command of the Moral Law. But the Su- 
preme Being must have confounded the imaginations of those employed upon 
this Babel of error, v/hich even the Mohammedans teach to be sacrilege against 
the Jewish God, which they as well as christians adopted but retained him as 
they found him in the Jewish legends unreduced to fractions or the trinitj^ 

For the benefit of those who pretend to assent to Original Sin, or the validity 
of a command against the knowledge of good and evil, which is in open defiance 
and contravention of the Moral Law, which Moral Law positively commands 
a knowledge of good and evil, with which to relate conflicting thoughts, impulses 
and emotions for a moral, intelligent choice, since moral thought and act is the 
self-regulating condition imposed upon rational intelligence for its wellfare 
and perfection; but waiving this moral aspect of the command and provisionally 
admitting, for the sake of the argument that Adam's disobedience was a sin, 
and admitting as the church contends that the sin is infinitely divisible and 
fractional so that each individual bare his aliquot share. What then? Why, 
assent to and accept absolution from Adam s sin, and thereby the church 
proffer of eternal life, conditioned on your individual assent to Christ's crucific- 
tion, which makes you "a, Particeps Criminis" or as much a participtant in 
the crime, as one who accepts a share of the high-way robber, knowing how 
the robber came by it. To absolve the sin of disobedience with such an inde- 
fensible assent to crime, is only to pretend to expel the misdemeanor against 
the Jewish God with a felony against mankind, or to expel a lesser sin with a 
greater and more heinous, which leaves the Proselyte before the bar of the 
Moral Law, fully as wicked as ever. 

If there is no use for crucifiction to remove disobedience, when that disobedi- 
ence is provisionally admitted a misdemeanor, much less is there use for cruci- 
fiction when that disobedience is a virtue and is commanded by the Moral 
Law as was the disobedience of Adam. 

In Heb. 10:4-11. The church has declared b}^ its bishops that the blood 
of bulls and goats would no longer take away sins, but that ''we are sanctified 
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all;" in other words, 
I John 1:7, states: ''The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from, all 
sin." And I Cor. 15:22 are the words, "For as in Adam all die even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. " 

Why execrate the Jews as murderers in the crucifiction and then monopo- 



28 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

lize this pretended advantage over all others for the removal of sin? If the 
crucifiction was essential to the removal of sin, an absurdity, for thought, than 
which there is no greater, then the Jews who crucified Christ were their God's 
vice-gerents, sacrificers or ministers to kill and prepare the victim for the abso- 
lution of Original Sin, in order to make way for the eternal life, conditioned 
thereon; in other words, if the sacrifice were genuine, the Jews were ministerial 
sacrificers not murderers. 

But in spite of the allurement of eternal life, proffered by the church, 
conditioned on Christ's crucifiction, belief and resurrection, the soul of humanity 
refuses to yield justification to the crucificers, even though Heb. 10:10 states 
that: ''We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ 
once for all. " But the refusal of humanity to justify the crucifiers, which 
refusal is a positive break-down of the entire scheme; deprive the crucifiers of 
justification and establish the charge as Christiandom has done, that those 
employed to carry out the programme were murderers in the place of their 
Jewish God's vice-gerents, or ministers, to prepare the body as a sacrifice for 
Original Sin; and every Proselyte of the Christian Religion is a ''particeps 
criminis " or at least is a participant in the crime by the conscious advantage 
that he pretends to assent to, and accept, conditioned on crucifiction. 

Now then you cannot condemn a highwayman of indefensible homicide 
with half the spoils in your own pocket for keeps; you cannot condemn a thief 
with half the plunder in your possession to be converted to your individual 
use, knowing the criminal possession when you accept it without guilt; neither 
can you condemn the Jew for the crucifiction of Christ; for the removal of the 
Original Sin of Adam, which the church imposes upon you and your creed 
makes real, by winning your indefensible assent; so long as you yield your 
assent and harbor the advantage, you are a participant in your admitted 
conditions of that advantage; you cannot be absolved even of a misdemeanor 
against the Moral Law by surrender of unjustifiable assent to a felony, because 
between two evils you are deliberately choosing the greater, and if a felony will 
not absolve a misdemeanor, much less will a felony absolve a virtue, even when 
the church misnames virtue, vice; and uses such as a passport for her perfidy. 
Only by a sin, which is an infringement of the Moral Law, can the virtue of an 
individual be made void. 

The character which we possess is the condition of the influence we our- 
selves carry for the right. In the presence of the Supreme Being, most men 
rather than to conform to the requirements of a moral life, will join any sect 
which holds out to them a creed for piety, which is an evasion of the command 
of the Moral Law and is a compromise with virtue, with the end vice, in effect 
out- weighing virtue; but if the Moral Law governs a man, it as absurd for him 
to join any; of such compromising sects, to lighten his burden, as for the Moral 
Law to contradict itself. The Moral Law tolerates no indifferent thoughts or 
actions; each is moral'y advantageous or not. 

It can never be the same thing, whether I do or do not think a given thought, 
or perform a given act. The principle of moral advantage which involves 
a knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, must in 



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each case be reckoned with. Just think of this impregnable fortress of the 
Supreme Being, set up in the human soul, for its continual rectitude and then 
think of its utter mockery by so-called inspired writers who set up a God, and 
Bible threatening with death a human being who should partake of the knowl- 
edge of good and evil; to which he may relate his thought and act for correction; 
knowledge which is a condition of a moral and intelligent choice at all. Such 
conduct ascribed to a God can only come from those wishing to imitate the 
meanness ascribed to him. This is not a patched up compromise; it is an utter 
desertion of the field of right for one of fraud and piracy. 

It is axiomatic that the moral law governs and determines all acts free in 
being true and right. When the mind has once been wrested of its power by 
the fraud that our actual or imputed demerits can be absolved by another's 
actual or imputed merits as is the effect of the dogma of redemption, regardless of 
its illicit origin; when the mind has once entered upon a compromise with the 
integrity of its powers and with the strictness of virtue, truth, right and the 
perfection enjoined by the Moral Law: there is a brighter prospect for the indif- 
ferent than for the habitual compromiser, for he uses an art to silence conscience 
and smother moral light. The Moral Law demands determinations of intelli- 
gences, through conceptions, which produce a conviction of moral advant- 
age, whether that conviction arise from the intuition of right, truth or law but 
never because it is ascribed to a God. If an axiom, it will bear its own impress 
of divinity. A command, even if ascribed to a God, can never make right 
wrong or wrong right, even in a Bible and declared to be of divine origin. 
Whatever is true and right will bear its own impress of divinity regardless of 
its artificial church or biblical environment. If the Moral Law, like higher 
mathematics, 3aelds to the mind self evident moral truths which cannot be met 
and contradicted, what sense is there in the attempt to establish dogm^as for 
creeds, beliefs and faiths which utterly contradict such truths. 

As we should relate all effort which we require of the body to a knowledge 
of its continued health, so should we relate all effort which we require of the 
mind to a knowledge of its continued perfection. 

The determination that ''I will always act morally' associated with 
my every act is absolute perfection in virtue. '^Without the aid or interven- 
tion of any higher authority whatsoever. This may seem more of a hardship 
than to imagine that another will shoulder our load; but a release from self 
deception and the deceptions of an immoral superstition rests wholly in meet- 
ing and defeating lawless inertia in order to become the complete master of 
ourself. 

The words, Acts 13:22-23, '^And when God had removed Saul, he raised 
up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, 
"1 have found David, the son of Jesus, a man after mine own heart which shall 
fulfill ail my will. Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise, 
raised unto Israel, a Savior, Jesus. " Now then for prophetic verification of this 
disguise and perverted meaning, foisted upon the words of Isa. 11:1, B. C. 713, 
the same prophet demonstrates, by what he said a year later, that anything 
like a Savior foisted upon the meaning of the words used, is utterly unfounded, 



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for just a year later or B. C. 712, the same prophet, Isa. 43:3, 10, 11, positively 
states by the mouth of his Jewish God, ''I am the Lord thy God the Holy One 
of Israel, thy Savior; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be 
after me. I even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior. " Which 
words absolutely annull any decree, will or codicil of a previous year to furnish 
a Savior in plain terms, much less to rear one on a disguise and perverted mean- 
ing of a narrative. In order to make valid the idea that a plurality of Gods was 
permissible, that is from the fact that they were fixing up three, designated the 
trinity and to silence the rebuke of the Jews that more than one was blasphemy, 
John 10:34, 35, makes reply by the mouth of Jesus himself as follows: ^' Jesus 
answered them, is it not written in your law? I said ye are gods; if he call them 
gods unto whom the word of God came, and the scriptures cannot be broken, 
say ye. Thou blasphemest because I said I am the Son of God. '' Thus you see 
the Savior could cite scripture to confirm a plurality of Gods, which was admissi- 
ble among his pagan orignators and supporters. 

Just think of the pranks the writers of fiction have levied upon this Jewish 
God that only shows his power by contradicting the laws of the Supreme Being ; 
by stopping the sun in Heaven; drowning the world; staying the appetite of 
hungry lions; wresting fire of its power to scorch human hair; neutralizing the 
gases in the whale's stomach, so that for three days it was used as a floating 
house of prayer; by making Adam of dust and Eve of Adam's rib; piling up water 
in resistance to gravity to accommodate a horde of Jewish slaves that it might 
close upon their masters. All such falsehoods given authority by the church for 
the unthinking masses, break down the possible integrity of thought, and moral 
purity, for the individual will invariably assent to and imitate the idiosyncrasies 
and immoralities which his form of superstition or church ascribes to his God, 
for example: the virtue of Adam for obedience to the intuitive principle of 
right in resisting ignorance and inertia, and his disobedience to an immoral 
command reinforced and emphasized with the threat of death and issuing from 
the mouth of a God, in order to indicate the authority of command at the expense 
of making perpetual the indiscriminate revel in good and evil; which immorality 
the church sanctions throughout its New Testament because the barbarism 
of the Old Testament has ascribed such immorality to its God, which is a suf- 
ficient warrant however immoral, for its adoption and currency; and that too 
without the slightest suspicion, that such a God must by the very nature of the 
conduct ascribed to him be a counterfeit and a product of a mere irresponsible 
or wayword imagination and because Adam disobeyed such an immoral command, 
the church of Christendom founded A. D. 381, and its dogmas recorded in 
Book of Rom. Chapter 5, and I Cor. 15:22, by the words, '^For as in Adam all 
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " Thus the church to make the 
dissipation of virtue complete pretends to taint all mankind with the disobedi- 
ence of Adam, which it brands '^Original Sin in all men, and conditions its 
removal in each and the hope of a future life in each upon the absolute surrender 
of assent to crucifiction. Even though the object is reared, from the aposta- 
tization of a word, and an abstract time relation becomes a Savior, but it is no 
greater abuse of thought, to worship a time relation, for a God, than to worship 



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a friendly spirit or relation, by mistaking the relation, existing between or 
uniting entities, for the entities themselves; as a dog should be so heedless as 
to mistake the friendly relation between himself and master, for the master 
himself. Which relation you might call, a ghost, a friendly ghost or ghost of 
friendship. But for the dog to worship the ghost of friendship or friendly 
spirit existing between him and his master, would be to mistake one thing for 
another, would be to mistake the spirit of friendship itself, for the master him- 
self, which dogs are not guilty of. 

But how is it with man, who should worship the Holy Spirit or Holy Rela- 
tion, existing between himself and the Supreme Being, mistaking the relation, 
for the Being or Entity, or calling the relation, the Holy Ghost; and using it as 
an object of worship, instead of confining the worship to the Supreme Being, 
or real Entity where it belongs. 

And if the God used for worship is a counterfeit, as is the Jewish God made 
so from his numerous self-contradictions and crimes; what must be the relation 
between man and such a God, be it a friendly spirit. Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost 
or whatever name you may assign it, the relation can be of no greater validity 
than the object aimed at. and if the object be a counterfeit, the relation is 
bogus. 

Thus the victims of the Christian Religion are twice cross-hobbled with 
pictorial or theoretical dogmas and doctrines, which is enough to break down 
every vestige of moral integrity in the human soul. 

What must the Supreme Being think of a creed which teaches that virtue, 
must be absolved or subjected to atonement as was Adam's obedience to the 
positive command of the Moral Law, facing a threat of death, to say nothing of 
its being in downright contradiction to the Moral Law itself. 

Can the attempt to absolve virtue with crime be a religion or must it be a 
superstition? There is only one answer: it is an exhibition of barbarism. 
Think of the audacity of the bishops of the church, taking upon themselves 
the responsibility of inflicting all mankind with a pretended sin upon which 
their God on the very day of the offense, had already passed judgment and the 
victim of his pretended wrath had already served out his complete sentence. 
Think of the said bishops in the attempt to impose their judgment and sentence 
and sacrifice of a Savior for precisely the same offense, which is nothing short of 
downright mockery and woeful railery upon the original judgment and decree 
of their own God to say nothing of its being in utter mockery of the Supreme 
Being by the willful, false and malicious libel, vmich the said bishops have 
preferred against the entire human race of the Suprem^e Being, which is formu- 
lated: Rom. 5:12, as follows: ''Wherefore as by one man, sin entered into 
the world and death by sin so death passed upon all men for that all have 
sinned. " 

Just as sure as it is immoral to share the spoils of a highwayman, who has 
murdered his victim for his money in your presence, so sure under the Moral 
Law is it a vice to accept absolution and eternal life conditioned on the inde- 
fensible and barbarous assent .to the crucifiction of a deified personification of 
the word " Immanuel " from Isa. 7:14, and it is no less a vice to yield such assent 



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should the victim be represented to the masses as human or not human, if it is 
taught as an event of history, such event is immoral; if it is taught as fiction, 
the incidents of the narrative are positively immoral; and if it is fiction and is 
taught as history of events that actually transpired, in order to give it credence 
and currency, the moral turpitude is increased rather than diminished. For 
the Proselyte to accept a share of proffered advantage, is to yield implied assent 
to the crucifiction, which is the condition of the proffered advantage; and can 
the Supreme Being justify such an immoral assent? Never! Can the rational 
and moral integrity of the human mind justify such an immoral assent? Never! 
Thus the offense against the Moral Law is a double one; first, the dogma of 
Original Sin minimizes virtue by commending the vice of ignorance; next, the in- 
defensible assent on the part of the Proselyte, for the infliction of a God's 
punishment to sustain ignorance, and the indefensible assent to crucifiction 
are in positive circumvention of the Moral Law; and accepting the proffered 
absolution and eternal life conditioned thereon, is no less immoral and it matters 
not that the crucifiction was simply a product of fiction, or was the murder of 
the mere word ''Immanuel" personified and transmuted by the church inito a 
God, called Matt. 1:25, ''God with us" or was merely fanciful, the acceptance 
of it as a creed, makes the Proselyte just as amenable to the Moral Law as 
though the murder of a word personified into a God, were the ultimate of 
absurdity; for the intention to receive a benefit from even fanciful murder, if 
accepted and believed even dogmatically, to be a case of actual crime, is just 
as incriminating as to knowingly accept from a highwayman, a proffered por- 
tion of his money to keep and use which he represents to have been taken from 
a victim, when such was actually not the truth; your mistaken belief will not 
excuse you, being bound under the Moral Law by the intention. 

You know theoretically at least, that Christ was murdered by an affirma- 
tion of belief to which you assent as a church creed to that effect, and you assent 
to it by accepting the hope of the proffered advantage that the church holds 
out to you, which is absolution and eternal life conditioned thereon. 

Adam s disobedience being a virtue, were other conditions regular, cruci- 
fiction is divested of a reason; much less is crucifiction, which is a sin in itself 
justifiable by reason; thus the doctrine of redemption is divested of a reason, 
being an attempt to absolve actual virtue with imputed vice, which can only 
be made actual by the positive theoretical crime arising upon indefensible 
assent to what is unreasonable. You may as well try to absolve truth as virtue, 
but Adam's virtue has withstood the assault of a double attempt at expiation; 
the former of which is the work ascribed to the Jewish God by Adam's expul- 
sion from Eden; the latter is the work of a council of bishops who rear an object 
of atonement from Isa. 7:14, to absolve the same act. And the virgin-born son 
of King Ahaz's time riddle, called Immanuel, has served a double function; 
one, was a rhetorical flourish used as a land-mark in the passing of three years 
time, at the termination of which Kings Rezin and Pekah, should be removed 
from power; the other, was used by the bishops of the church as an atonement 
to appease the wrath of the author of an immoral command, which by decree 
of the Moral Law, is no more effectual in absolving virtue than was nine hun- 



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dred and twenty-nine years, which Adam is reputed to have served at hard 
labor, either or every such expiation or object of atonement can never absolve 
a single act of virtue; even if misnamed by the church a vice; and is treated 
throughout its New Testament as a vice. 

A Savior from the loins of David, according to the belief of the Jews, who 
are on the ground where these incidents, if true, must have transpired, declare 
has not yet appeared, and which they still expect in fulfillment of II Sam 1. 7:14, 
in spite of Isa. 43:11, from the mouth of their own God to the contrary; in spite 
of the claim by the mouth of Christ after the resurrection, while his exploits 
were of the nature of a very lively object of fiction, that he himself was the gen- 
uine fulfillment of Isa. 7:14, verified Luke 24:27, in which Isa. 7:14, for prophetic 
comfirmation is used. The New Testament averring all the while that this 
Savior or ''God with us' was in fulfillment of Isa. 7:14, which Savior from that 
prophecy was reared at Constantinople, A. D. 381, by the bishops of the church 
and by vote then and there, was made ''incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the 
Virgin Mary," as elaborated and narrated from Matt. 1:17 to 24, which is the 
mere invention of bishops by apostatizing the words "Virgin" and "Immanuel" 
out of their use and meaning as declared in Isa. 7:14 into their use, as declared 
Luke 1 :27, and Matt. 1 :23. 

The said bishops, whose votes were used to endow the Holy Ghost with the 
attribute of Giver of Life, in order to father this extremely unique anomally, 
in which the naming period of a child and the Bible God are identical, which 
the Jewish rabbis repudiate as spurious, a perversion of Bible narrative, and to 
be a mere figure of fiction unworthy of serious attention. 

Rom. 5:19 states: "For as by one mans disobedience many were made 
sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. " 

We are informed what the disobedience refers to, that is, Adam's failure 
to comply T.ith a command enjoining ignorance, and his failure to obey so base 
a command was justified and commanded by the Moral Law. Now then what 
does the latter part of the formula signify, viz: "So by the obedience of one 
shall many be made righteous." Obedience to what? The Book of Heb. 
5:S states: "Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things 
which he suffered." And Phil. 2:8, states: "And being formed in fashion as 
a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death 
of the cross." So that obedience to "The death of the cross" is the meaning 
of the words: '^So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. " 

Now then since no one or even the Moral Law justifies the crucifiers; and 
at the trial no fault being found against the Savior, his delivery to his execu- 
tioners indicates the travesty of justice, and his judicial murder; and his depicted 
indefensible assent to his own crucifiction and the only justification offered 
was the fulfillment of the scripture of Isa. 53:10, B. C. 713, comprised in the 
words: "When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin," confirmed Heb. 
10:10, which states: "We are sanctified through the offering of the body of 
Jesus Christ once for all. " But the Jewish God, Isa. 43:11, B. C. 712, the same 
year, declares: "Besides me there is no Savior" which positively cancels all 
justification of crucifixion of a Savior under the Jev/ish God, which makes the 



34 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

act of killing positively unjustifiable homicide in both realms viz: that of the 
Jewish God as well as Supreme Being. But this Savior is reared by the church 
in order to exhibit indiscriminate obedience and to fulfill scripture. 

But this object of redemption when assured of twelve legions of angels 
with which to resist the crucifixion, and then not use them, makes his own act 
of omission as unjustifiable as that of Judas Iscariot, under the behest of the 
Moral Law. 

Now then all who believe that this Jesus Christ existed on earth at all, 
believe that he was judicially murdered; and by the testimony of the inspired 
New Testament that he was '' Obedient to the death of the cross " which exhibits 
Christ's indefensible assent to be crucified; and if he was crucified, the act of 
killing even his own body, is immoral, for he is surrendering indefensible assent 
to his own bodily destruction, which is positively immoral in both theory and 
practice, as an example to be imitated, under any circumstances, and with 
twelve legions of angels with which to defend himself, and his refusal to use 
them, makes his willing submission, to his own bodily destruction, less justifi- 
able; which makes his ''Obedience to the death of the cross" both in theory or 
practice positively immoral. 

Now then if this object of redemption is not justified in his own surrender 
and humility by the ''death of the cross" and such is positively forbidden by the 
Moral Law, how much less is a believer about the crucifixion justified 
in yielding his indefensible assent and approbation to such unjustifiable homi- 
cide; and then to accept and share the church-proffered advantage of absolu- 
tion from Original Sin, and a clear title to an eternal home conditioned thereon, 
is the very ultimate of human credulity. 

Should you grant the validity of Original Sin and ignore the validity of 
Adam's absolution by the punishment inflicted by the Jewish God, by the 
yielding of your assent to indefensible homicide or Deicide, at the best you are 
only expelling a lesser sin with a greater and more heinous, and it matters not 
that the entire scheme is clerical fiction; the patched-up compromise, of your 
integrity, by a plea of guilty, to the libel of Original Sin, and your indefensible 
assent to the remedy; simply transmutes a plan generated through fear, imposi- 
tion, ignorance, and lack of faith in the efficacy of the moral law, into actual 
crime, invited by your unwarranted sanction, assent and permission. 

Thus, obedience of the victim to the "death of the cross" according to 
the narrative was unjustifiable and immoral, which alone, as a sacrificial lamb, 
is sufficient to render this Savior a counterfeit, as is claimed by the entire Jewish 
race to-day; which is expressly confirmed by the Jewish God himself, who states 
Isa. 43:11, "Beside me there is no Savior; yet notwithstanding, all this immoral- 
ity and contradiction of the Jewish God's express declaration; the word "Im- 
manuel" of Isa. 7:14, Matt. 1:23, is apostatized into a Savior or "God with us. " 

The christian accepts this figure of the imagination for his God, is cursed 
when he curses, and is blessed when he blesses, according to the permission and 
discretion of his clergy; and what makes the case very interesting to a mere 
auditor or observer of the pantomime, is to behold the pranks that the Jewish 
God's bishops cut up with him, both in the reduction of his unity to a trinity. 



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which the Jews and Mohamedans pronounce blasphemy, and in reviving his 
threat of death, which he had abandoned B. C. 4004, and had satisfied his 
wrath upon a different sentence, which was Adam's explusion from Eden. 

Who are the ones that are behind the church? The church is a corpora- 
tion. It has no soul or conscience. True! But the bishops of the council 
of Theodosius the Great, settled the unconscienable dogmas of Original Sin 
and Redemption, that have prevailed in Christiandom down to the present 
time; whose unscrupulous invention and imaginations are elaborated into the 
fiction of the New Testament, which contains the willful, false and malicious 
libel, against all of the races of the Supreme Being, of Original Sin and guilt, veri- 
fied Rom. 5:12, to which not one of the anonymous bishops signed his name for 
fear of immediate torture; and to protect their own lives, dated their New Testa- 
ment back at least four hundred years from the time of its completion; heading 
the books with fictitous names, thus, themselves in oblivion, the work has 
outfaced its God, its men, and for double dealing, has been a complete com- 
pendium of the Devil under the guise of religion for fifteen centuries. 

The original libel formulated Rom. 5:12, reads: ''Wherefore as by one man 
sin entered into the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for 
that all men have sinned." Which if a Devil were in any manner possible: 
all: by the church, are consigned to his dominion. Does any man realize the 
woeful enormity of this libel upon both the Supreme Being and all mankind, 
which comes straight from the council of bishops of Emperor Theodosius, held 
at Constantinople, A. D. 381, with St. Gregory of Nazianzus, president whose 
discretion for bodily safety, withheld their signatures from the books of the 
New Testament, in which I Cor. 15:22, the Original Sin is charged to Adam; 
and through him to all mankind, by the words: ''For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made righteous. " But be it known, that before 
the entire human race could in any possible manner, inherit even a structural 
deformity ; it must be first proven to have existed in the parentage, and no less 
so if sin were transmissable at all. 

In Rom. 5:19, are found the words: "For as by one man's disobedience 
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righte- 
ous. " Under the original libel disobedience is the sin; and since it is treated 
by the church as an event of history, as such will it stand the test of examina- 
tion. In Gen. 2:17, B. C. 4004, Adam was commanded not to eat of the tree 
of the knowledge of good and evil, under threat of death on the day of disobedi- 
ence. When was Adam made? B. C. 4004. When was he placed in the 
garden of Eden? B. C. 4004. When was he forbidden to eat the knowledge 
of good and evil? B. C. 4004. When did Adam eat of the knowledge of 
good and evil? B. C. 4004. When did he get his first suit of clothes? B. C. 
4004. When did he name all the animals? B. C. 4004. When was Eve made 
of Adam's rib? B. C. 4004. When was she told that her husband should rule 
over her? B. C. 4004. When did the Jewish God put a flaming sword between 
Adam and the Tree of Life? B. C. 4004. Did Adam or Eve commit any 
recorded sin after one year old? No! When was Cain born? B. C. 4003. 
How old was Adam when he died? Nine hundred and thirty. 



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What was Adam's act of disobedience? He was charged with konwledge 
of good and evil, which is positively essential to a moral life, for continual 
reference in choosing the good and refusing the evil. 

How did that effect him? Gen. 3:22 states: ''The Lord God said, Behold! 
The man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. " By this admission 
does this Lord God tacitly approve of Adam's disobedience? It prevents him 
as a consistent or an intelligent being, forever thereafter from treating Adam's 
disobedience a sin. Then punishment after such an admission, would be an 
immoral, irrational and inhuman act? It would develop in this character, 
used by the writer, as and for a God, a being that in act contradicts his word, 
and so contradicts himself, which for moral, rational thought, must cancel 
his existence for any purpose. Would the knowledge of good and evil, (which 
means the rational power of distinguishing good and evil, with the power of 
resemblance, in order to choose the good and refuse the evil), be absolutely 
commanded by the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, in defiance of the com- 
mand of any Jewish God, human or divine or writer in such behalf to the 
contrary? It would. 

Would it be to Adam's absolute advantage as well as to the advantage of 
all men to obey the commands of the Moral Law? It would. Then Adam's 
act agrees with the intuition of right? It does. So that disobedience condi- 
tioned on being true to the native intuition of right is a virtue of the highest 
merit? It is. And calls for the approbation of the Supreme Being as well as 
man; and if any further proof of Adam's innocence were necessary, the very 
document, and pretended author, that prefers the unconscienable libel against 
Adam and through him the entire human race, declares, I Tim. 2:14, ''Adam 
was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression;" 
also it is proven that Adam could not sin on account of his age; since all of his 
acts under the charge occurred during his first year; next, the command for- 
bidding Adam the knowledge of good and evil was over-ruled and abandoned 
in spirit, according to the narrative by the same God that issued it, by his 
tacit admission arising from the words, "Behold the man has become as one 
of us, to know good and evil, " which under this Jewish God's admission, cancels 
the sin "in point of possibility, " for this God admits during a lucid interval that 
he would do the same thing; next, the very bishop that uses the mouth of Paul 
in numerous instances to prefer the libel against all men through Adam's dis- 
obedience; by the mouth of the same Paul I Tim. 2:14, states: "Adam was 
not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression, " which 
utterly destroys, belief, by the principle of contradiction arising from the testi- 
mony of the bishop's principle witness; next, as an ethical principle, the com- 
mand to compel ignorance of good as well as evil, contradicts Adam.'s duty, the 
intuition of Right, the Moral Law, and Nature's law, all of which makes the 
act of Adam's disobedience a virtue of merit, that inlists the approbation of the 
Supreme Being. 

And finally, if Adam was capable of doing wrong as his taking punishment 
must indicate, then he was capable of doing right; and if capable of doing right, 
a command to blot out or extinguish that capability, since it is in absolute 



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contravention of moral necessity, and is a sin in itself, and consequently is 
positively immoral. 

But this very act of disobedience is the class of material and subterfuge 
that one hundred and fifty bishops of Europe, Asia and Africa, assembled in 
council, have used as the foundation of the Christian Religion, which their 
pens have elaborated, contradicted, and embelished "after what flourish their 
nature " could indicate, written by such actual historic characters as St. Gregory, 
St. John Chrysostom., St. Ambrose, St. Thomas, St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; 
and dated back several centuries beginning at 6 B. C, and the scene closing 
96 A. D., when all dated contemporaries are dead, forgotten and out of the way, 
leaving the coast clear for the piece of imposture and libel upon all mankind 
at the hands of the church. 

If Adam was a human being, as the anonymous bishops who penned the 
New Testament and its clergy who idolize it, would have its Proselyte believe, 
in order to father onto him Original Sin, so that it could be transmitted to his 
descendants. But to be consistent, moral necessity, then as now, could not 
pass by inheritance, and since Adam, if he existed at all, must resemble his 
descendants, and, like them, any act committed by him before twelve months 
old, would exonerate him in any realm that we are acquainted with from the 
least vestige of sin or guilt. 

So that Adam's innocence is established, if there were no other, on the 
ground of infancy, which, in allegiance to any God, be he genuine or counter- 
feit, made him incapable of sin or guilt. Therefore as an historic being at that 
age, this Adam could not sin at all. If Adam was a mere incident of fiction, 
whose illicit origin and behavior, were the mere fruit of human fancy and imagina- 
tion, the depicited act of disobedience, by gaining knowledge of good and evU, 
as an ethical principle, would have been obedience to a higher law, which is 
evoked by the native intuition of right, implanted in the human soul, for its 
protection, preservation and perfection. So that setting aside the depicted 
monstrosities of this Adam in other respects, the act of disobedience to a com- 
mand, enjoining ignorance in matter of choosing the good and refusing the 
evil, would accord with the Moral Law; and then as now, is binding on all 
human beings capable of personal responsibility. Thus Adam's act considered 
simply as an ethical principle with all the license granted to fable, since it 
conforms to the rule of right, merits the approbation, of all right-minded men. 
But taken as a whole, provisionally as an event of history, acts perpetrated 
before the first year had expired in Adam's life, would exonerate him from the 
least vestige of sin or guilt on the plea of infancy, whatever might be the nature 
of those acts. 

And as a fable contrary to the intention of the writer, the narrative yields 
a moral; that a command should be disregarded, even when the writer attempts 
to reinforce his production by the mouth of a God, when obedience to it con- 
tradicts the soul's intuition of justice, truth, and right, the rule of right or the 
Moral Law. 

Then the statement. Gen. 3:23, from the words: ''The Lord God said, 
Behold the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil, " compels 



38 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

this God to contradict himself ''in point of possibility/' for the spirit of such 
an admission, contradicts the command prohibiting the knowledge of good and 
evil, then to inflict punishment, makes self-reproach inexorable on behalf of 
this God for the issuance of such an immoral command. For after the admission 
of this God that Adam's act had made him ''as one of us," then to treat by 
punishment the act as sin contradicts his own hypothesis, and relegates this 
God's character to the realm of self-impeached moral monstrosities. 

The command in the first instance when subjected to a moral test, was 
issued in contradiction of the Eternal Principle of Right, or the moral intuition 
of right, and the consciousness of absolute duty. 

In the light of the foregoing proof s what becomes of the Christian Religion? 
As formulated, I Cor. 15:22, "For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all 
be made alive. " Why it is simply consigned to the realm of absurdity. Still, 
for any whose bewilderment in Christian sophistry is of such a caste that the 
proofs adduced fail to remove the cloud, which ages of superstition has rendered 
impervious, even in the face of unassailable proof. The anonymous bishops, who 
prefer the libel, "For as in Adam all die" through the mouth of the character 
Paul; through the mouth of the same character I Tim. 2:14, make use of the 
words: "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the 
transgression; " which if true, would require that the New Testament should 
be re-written on that basis, and the libel of Original Sin worded; "For as in 
Adam all die" would have to be amended to the words: "For as in Eve all 
die. " 

Thus the very witness that the anonymous bishops employ to establish 
their false and malicious libel against all men, as well as the Supreme Being, 
is impeached as a falsifier, and his dogma of Original Sin, is contradicted and 
reduced to utter nullity by his own utterance. 

Thus the veracity of the anonymous bishops, who write the libel, as well 
as their principle suborned witness, Paul, go down to oblivion as falsifiers. 

They have employed the word "God" in their falsifying scheme in such a 
manner that the masses should mistake it for the Supreme Being in order to 
force this work of fraud and imposture onto the masses, whose powers are not 
sufficiently in practice, to match the guile of the oppressor. Thus, the mask 
is torn from the visage of these one hundred and fifty clerical falsifiers, who are 
dragged before the search-light of the Moral Law, where remorse, self-reproach 
and every vice that has a name in the annals of clandestine misguidance "cries 
guilty" 

A Savior for the forgiveness of virtue, would subvert the entire order of 
the Supreme Being, and instead of the Original Sin and guilt of Adam, and by 
theological construction, the Original Sin and guilt of all mankind, the original 
innocence and integrity of Adam is vindicated, and as a natural consequence 
as far as the unconscienable libel of Original Sin goes, the original innocence 
and integrity of all mankind is vindicated. And mankind has an action of 
malicious prosecution against this corporation without soul or conscience, but 
it would be like the maxim, "sue a beggar and catch a kite." When will 
humanity put by, on questions of theology, their swaddling clothes? Its 



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nurses will apply them just as long as mankind will pay nurses wages; and 
when the pay stops, the child is weaned. But the New Testament is written 
on the basis that Adam's disobedience gave rise to Original Sin, Total Depravity 
and the Fall of Man, all of which has been demonstrated a falsehood. Setting 
aside inspiration, whether the disobedience is ascribed to Adam, or Eve, con- 
sidering the command, disobedience is enjoined by the Moral Law. 

But the Christian Religion rests its sole foundation on the dogma of Rom. 
5:12, ''Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, 
so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " 

Do you ask under the foregoing conditions, what has happened to the 
Jewish God, in unity or trinity, and to the Christian Religion, as well? Why, 
they belong to the history of the past, like the crater of a defunct volcano that 
had served its purpose as a vent to the spleen of savage life. The nine faculties 
and twelve intuitive ideas, which evolution by contact with the moral and 
secular universe, has made native to the human soul, when governed by reason, 
sustains the intellectual forces and consigns such ethical monstrosities as obedi- 
ence at the expense of the command of the Moral Law to the realm of absurdity. 

The next in order is to dispose of salvation, as expressed by the formula of 
Rom. 10:9, which states: ''That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the 
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the 
dead, thou shalt be saved. " What does this seemingly harmless clause 
mean worded that, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus?" 
Does any christian Porselyte understand what he assents to, when he confesses 
the Lord Jesus? I will tell you just what he assents to, when he confesses the 
Lord Jesus; by that confession he acknowledges Adam's disobedience to be a 
sin, which under the positive command of the Moral Law, has been proven a 
virtue. He acknowledges Adam's disobedience a sin; not only in Adam, but 
the Original Sin of all mankind through Adam, and himself a participant in 
that sin; and since he derives his moral Status from Adam, on which the church 
has raised its indefensible libel of guilt, when Adam's innocence is vindicated, 
his own derived or imputed sin, suffers the fate of its cause and his own inno- 
cence of every shadow of Original Sin is vindicated. 

Furthermore to confess the Lord Jesus in the foregoing relation is to deny, 
that obedience to the intuition of right, is a virtue. Is to deny, that obedience 
to the universal principle of right is a virtue. Is to deny, that tyranny and 
oppression is sin. Is to deny, that disobedience to any command, however 
base or immoral, is a virtue. Is to deny, that the absolute obedience to the 
command of the Moral Law is a virtue. Is to deny, that in action, conscietious- 
ness of duty, as a principle of self-government is a virtue. Is to deny that dis- 
obedience is positively demanded by the Moral Law, whenever perpetual ignor- 
ance is enjoined in the name of a God. 

When Emperor Theodosius the Great, and his council made it incum- 
bent upon his subjects to forego all of the above principles of the Moral Law, 
in the confession of Christ, it meant then as it does now, a moral out-law, veri- 
fied Gal. 3:22, by the christian words: "The scripture hath concluded all 
under sin; that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that 



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believe, which ''faith of Jesus Christ/' means your assent to all the Bible 
narrative of the crucifiction, as an object of redemption, which is immoral in 
itself. What an exceedingly unsearchable privilege dispensed by the church, 
for all mankind to be concluded under the sin of Adam, so that each may have 
his decimal fraction of it cancelled, who will deliberately acknowledge the 
unassailable virtue of Adam to be a sin. Original Sin, sin unto death of the soul 
and himself, a self-confessed participant in that sin, for which he humbly 
supplicates forgiveness, absolution and pardon, conditioned on his acknowledged 
merits of a Savior's mission to negate Original Sin. 

To confess the Lord Jesus is not only the deliberate admission in defiance 
of every ethical principle of the moral world, that Adam's unassailable act of 
disobedience is a sin, but when you solicit pardon for your share of it; that act 
is as much an insult, is as much in open defiance, is as much affront to the majes- 
ty of the one only Supreme Being, and the moral order of the universe as could 
deliberately uttered by the tongue of man. So much for the confession of the 
Lord Jesus. 

Now then for the other half of the formula: ''And shalt believe in thy 
heart God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. " In I Cor. 
15:21, the dogmas of Adam's sin, and Christ's atonement are made to stand to 
one another in the relation of cause and effect, as follows: 

"For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the 
dead. " By the invincible logic of the Moral Law, these cunningly united and 
related dogmas, of sin and salvation, reared from realms of misguided human 
fancy, four thousand three hundred and ninety-five years apart, have been 
wrenched asunder, and the words: "By man came death," which means by 
Adam's sin came death, have been demonstrated a falsehood, and since it is 
axiomatic that the fate of the effect must follow the fate of its cause ; the words, 
"By man came also the resurrection of the dead" are false. 

But in Rom. 10 :9, belief that God hath raised him from the dead is neces- 
sary to being saved. As for Adam's disobedience being a sin, and by construc- 
tion Original Sin; and as for this Christ's resurrection from the dead, founded 
upon the life and death as depicted in the New Testament, which is a mere 
jest and mockery foisted clandestinely upon the prophecy of Isa. 7:14:15:16, 
and lacks the merit of being even good fiction; since the character is made by 
the writers for credence and currency, to advertise his own death and resurrec- 
tion as an advance agent, which is a travesty of propriety in the realm of fiction 
even; and to proclaim that such a death was in fulfillment of the scriptures, 
and to torture the character, to proclaim in advance of his own death the 
words: "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly 
so shall the son of man, be three days and three nights (afloat) in the heart of 
the earth, " all of which shows the utter weakness and impropriety of the entire 
farce; but Jonah's advent is prefigured Isa. 14:9, by the words: "Hell from 
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming. " So Jonah 2-2 prayed 
by the words "Out of the belly of Hell, cried I, and thou heardest my voice," 
are all clergymen as fortunate in being heard by the Jewish God from that 
region, which they have created for others, as was the clergyman Jonah? So 



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also Christ's resurrection is prefigured Ps. 16:10, ''For thou wilt not leave my 
soul in Hell/' verified Acts. 2:31:32, which in reference to the resurrection of 
Christ, must indicate that his soul was not left in Hell. 

Then, like Jonah, after he had risen from Hell, early in the morning on the 
first day of the week, Mary Magdaline, out of whom he had cast seven devils, 
''testified that she had seen him alive, but they believed her not, and he appear- 
ed unto two of them who told it unto the residue; neither believed they them. " 
And Mark 16:14:16, are the words, ''Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as 
they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of 
heart, because they believed not them, which had seen him after he was risen. '' 

Had such an event actually transpired, or were the narrative fiction even, 
think of the impropriety of himself in the attempt to force a belief in his own 
resurrection; yet the eleven apostles, w^hom he had told before his crucifiction 
over and over again in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, how^ he should be 
crucified, and after the third day rise again. There, on the ground where 
these events if true, took place; even the apostles, his body guard, so to speak, 
doubted the resurrection. 

What is all this pictorial doubting and unbelief told for; simply to brace up 
the hesitating Proselyte to repose his faith in the absurd. Nevertheless, he 
said unto them Mark 16:16, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel 
to every creature; he that believeth" on all these absurdities, second-hand, 
that you could not believe first-hand "and is baptised, shall be saved; but he 
that belie veth not shall be damned. " 

A little rough to threaten damnation upon all the world, belonging to the 
Jewish God, if they don't believe w^hat eleven of the attending decoys could 
not be forced to believe in the sublime presence of all the surrounding narrated 
circumstances, by the mouth of theu^ ow^n brother diciples that this Christ had 
risen from the dead. 

But by the Christian Religion, Christ's resurrection is conditioned on 
Adam's disobedience being Original Sin, sin unto death. But what must 
happen if the words, "For since by man (Adam) came death" is a false and 
malicious libel and his absolute innocence is vindicated? Then the Supreme 
Being, could positively have, no use whatever, for an object of atonement, for 
the expiation of virtue. 

We have found what the anonymous bishops, who wrote the New Testa- 
ment have considered to be the word of the Jewish God concerning Adam's 
disobedience; and it has all turned out from their numerous perversions of the 
original context, to be inferior to the w^ord of a writer of ordinary mythical 
fiction; and as for its moral or ethical aspect, it not only lacks the merit of 
yielding a moral as treated by the wTiter, but the intent of the author, unmis- 
takeably struggles to establish the immoral dogma of slavish obedience, at the 
sacrifice of the knowledge of good and evil, of the sanctity of human life and 
well being, of truth, justice and right. All of which consigns such narrative 
to the category of the despotism of primative races. 

Now then it is more than manifest that the Supreme Being has not the 
slightest use in the world for a sacrifice an atonement or a Jesus Christ, to for- 



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give an act of virtue, either in Adam or the entire human race by proxy. On 
the contrary, the conscious attempt to forgive virtue is a sin in itself; and a 
sacrifice for such must be confined to the Jewish God, and for you or I to ask 
pardon, forgiveness or absolution for an act of virtue imputed or actually lived, 
is an act, though perfectly common and proper among those in allegiance to 
the Jewish God, is in utter mockery and open defiance to the ordinances of the 
Supreme Being and the Moral Law; and what professed or secular christian, 
whether by mistake, inadvertance or design, can escape this actual self-re- 
proach. 

This is the predicament in which every professed christian in allegiance to 
the Jewish God, in trinity or unity is exposed. But what should be done? 
Why renounce such sophistry, and surrender your allegiance at once to the 
Moral Law of the Supreme Being. 

The instant that any man makes a pretense of going to the Supreme Being 
for the forgiveness of Original Sin or an act of virtue; that instant he is making 
sport of virtue, and putting a premium on vice, and such an attempt is an admis- 
sion that vice is the rule of the Supreme Being and virtue is the exception. 
How so? Why Adam's disobedience was a virtue; and it is axiomatic that if 
Original Sin is founded on Adam's disobedience, Original Sin is a virtue; and 
consequently to ask forgiveness of the Supreme Being, for Original Sin, would 
be asking forgiveness for virtue; an insult to his majesty than which there could 
be no greater. 

What is the material that the anonymous bishops have to work on to get 
the Jesus depicted in Matt. 1:18? In 1 Maccabees 2:55, B, C. 168, are the 
words: ''Jesus for fulfilling the word was made judge of Israel." Evidently, 
this is not the right one; but five hundred and forty-nine years later, or A. D 
381, a Jesus was made by the vote of a hundred and fifty bishops" incarnate 
by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, " reared from the prophecy of Isa. 7:14, 
B. C. 742, as follows: ''The Lord Himself shall give you a sign, behold! a vir- 
gin shall conceive and bare a son and shall call his name Immanuel; butter 
and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. " 

And since the Jewish God of Adam, and the Jewish God of Isaiah, and 
the Jewish God of the Maccabees, are identical, all Saviors that come in ful- 
fillment of his prophecies must be spurious; and against his express declaration 
of Isa. 43:10:11, which states in effect, beside me there is no Savior, uttered 
thirty later than Isa. 7:14, from which the Christian bishops originate their 
Savior. 

If the Supreme Being presides over the moral order of the world, then is 
not human virtue with respect to man, the principle law of that world. And 
no matter how heedless or mistaken, or undesigning or with what degree of 
crawling humility I obey a church creed, that forces me to seek pardon for the 
virtue of Adam or of myself; by that act, I openly and avowedly condemn the 
Supreme Being to the realm which contradicts the moral order of the world; 
and I condemn myself to that realm also; I make vice the rule and virtue the 
exception, for which I seek pardon, when an act of virtue is indulged in, which 
is the religion of the christian in allegiance to the Jewish God. 



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Thus by confessing Christ, you admit Original Sin, which has been dem- 
onstrated a virtue; but for all that it is a virtue, beguiled, bewildered and 
buried in christian sophistry, you still seek pardon and forgiveness for it, which 
is a self-condemning admission that the rule of your world that you stand by 
is vice, and the exception to your world is virtue; and should by chance or 
otherwise an act of virtue intrude itself upon you, you seek pardon for it, as in 
the case of Original Sin, the Christian Religion requires. 

Can any man in his senses any longer believe in the Christian Religion, 
whose sole service under the dogmas of Original Sin and Salvation, though in 
allegiance to the Jewish God, is in downright defiance of the Moral Law and 
ordinances of the Supreme Being. Since by the use of christian dogmas, vice 
is the rule and virtue the exception, should such be a persuasion for a man, 
either at home or abroad? 

It may be true in fact, that in the present state of human progress, occasion- 
ed by the evolution of man, from a creature of instinct, to a being of self-con- 
scious, conscious moral, and rational intelligence , that a large share of the human 
family become victims to a vicious life, since from the utter weakness, of the 
powers of imagination and fancy, in which their attempt to carry the work of 
the reason, necessitates a life more antagnostic to individual well being than 
harmony, necessitated by the change; but this temporary congestion is only 
symptomatic of a greater health that is in store for beings, when moral, rational, 
intelligence in human life shall be as universal and as much a matter of course, 
as is now enjoyed by instinctive existences, pure and simple. But the law of 
moral world of the Supreme Being, for moral intelligences, is virtue all the 
time; and the idea that crucifiction or murder, should enter any of his plans, 
is as much a shock to his moral nature as a downright contradiction should 
shock human reason. 

You pray to your Jewish Lord of Hosts, whose perch is on the mercy seat 
of a little wooden box between two ornaments on top of the box; in imitation 
of the idolatrous worship of the Egyptians; drawn by a yoke of milk cows; to 
strike down the opposition; but be it known that followers of the Supreme Being 
of this universe are aware that the opposition is already down, and the only 
prayer that the Moral Law could dictate to a Proselyte of the Supreme Being, 
would be to lift up the opposition; so that it may behold eternal truth, not 
temporary error, but eternal truth. What shall we know it by? By its agree- 
ment with an eternal principle of the human soul. What is one of them? The 
intuition of right is one. Now then when you christians pray to your deaf, 
dumb and imaginary God; who could only know what was going on upon the 
earth through messengers, as was the case with the inhabitants of Sodom and 
Gomorrah; to strike down the opposition, you might possibly be praying to 
have the eternal principle of right, the integrity on which the universe depends, 
struck down; and if your God had the power and your prayer were answered, 
such would occasion the general wreck of the universe, and you with it. 

After a Proselyte of the Jewish God, has prayed for a number of years to 
be absolved of Adam's sin, mechanically, he gets hardened in prayer, and his 
undaunted prowess in religion gets wayward and instead of an address to the 



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Supreme Being; since he solicits pardon for Adam's virtue, his prayer is pre- 
sumably directed to forces in opposition to the Supreme Being. 

In fact to escape the immediate retribution of the Supreme Being, which 
a benighted conscience would evoke, he must direct his supplication in the 
direction opposing the Supreme Being, and would naturally beat the air and 
cry, ''strike down the opposition.'' 

However, I take my stand with the opposition to all inferior imaginary 
Gods, and in the ranks of the Supreme Being alone, who can only become known 
by means of his universe ; and only as the reason can descipher that can he 
become known, and when you pray to strike down the opposition, you might 
be praying to strike down the real with a mere grasp at the imaginary. But 
be it known, that the Supreme Being and men who stand by his principles : as 
well as a counterfeit, and men who stand for its principles go down together; 
and we can stand it if you can. We will take our chances any how. 

I will stick to my intuition of right, which reports that Adam's obedience 
to the Moral Law agrees with the government of the Supreme Being. I will 
stick to my intuition of right which reports that the punishment of Adam was 
merely an exhibition of despotic license for human depravity, was unjust, was 
base, was unwarranted, was immoral, was in open defiance of the Moral Law. 
Why? Because it puts a premium upon the dogma of predestination, upon 
human slavery, upon tyranny, oppression and caprice to nurse it. 

I will stick to my eternal principle of resemblance, that is a sentinel, whose 
voice says: Adam before one year old, could not sin at all; because I cast my 
eye and judgment about and find that no human product at his age could be 
responsible for his acts, unless the entire order of the universe with respect to 
man, was changed and reversed. 

I will stick to my eternal principle of cause, which reports that such a 
foundation for sin, as is expressed by Rom. 5:12, is an ignominous libel, worded: 
''Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, so death 
passed upon all men for that all have sinned. " 

My infallible sentinel of cause reports, that such a source or cause as the 
disobedience of an infant before a year old, to a command, enjoining perpetual 
ignorance, is not sufficient reason for the advent of a Christ or an atonement and 
such a presumption upon human credulity, is absolutely insignificant, and 
inadequate to occasion so much fuss; it cannot carry its load; it breaks down, 
and passes before the eternal bar of the intuitive principle of cause, to the realm 
of sophistical wrecks. 

What does the prayer, "Strike the opposition" mean? It means, strike 
down your eternal sentinel of right; your eternal sentinel of resemblance; your 
eternal sentinel of cause, all of which are none other than the voice of the Su- 
preme Being, guarding the temple of the soul against desecration. 

I will stick to my eternal principle of truth, which reports, that a God 
who issues an im^moral command is a false one. A God who punishes disobedi- 
ence to an immoral command is a false one. A God which issues a command 
prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil, and then drowns the world because 
men obey that command is a false one. 



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A God which commands a lying spirit to express itself by the mouth of 
four hundred prophets, even to entice an immoral king, to his bodily death, 
is a false one; for he enters into an immoral conspiracy to punish the immoral 
inclination in King Ahab, which is an attempt to expel one sin with another. 
A God which punishes an act of virtue is a false one. Next a God which per- 
mits himself in flattery to another God's prowess, or in mockery of another 
God's judgment and sentence upon an infant under the age of a year, to be 
crucified and used as a sacrifice or sin offering, with twelve legions of angels at 
his back for bodily safety, such an indefensible use of himself helps to perpetuate 
tyranny, oppression, caprice and vice; and obedience to ''the death of the 
cross" is a surrender of the body for the perpetuation of felonious murder 
without sufficient reason, consequently. He is a false one. 

The Christian Religion declares that, ''If thou shalt confess with thy mouth 
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from 
the dead, thou shalt be saved. " The infallible sentinel of truth, says that, 
"if to confess such with thy mouth" means that the disobedience of a human 
being to an immoral command is sin, such a confession is both immoral and a 
sin in itself. If to confess the Lord Jesus, means that such disobedience of an 
immoral command, by an infant or man grown, before twelve months old, is a 
sin in him, and is a sin in me by vicarious deputation, such confession is false. 
Why? Because every one of these immoral dogmas attempt to strike down 
the infallible sentinel of truth, cause and resemblance, stationed in the human 
soul by the Supreme Being, to be forever a guide and guard of the Supreme 
Being, to protect the soul from desecration by the wrong. 

The Christian Religion is formulated, in the fifteen words: "For as in 
Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " The infallible sentinel 
of existence says, that if to believe God raised Christ from the dead, means that 
Adam's disobedience to an immoral command before twelve m^onths old, is 
the reason that the church gives for the death of Adam, in sin, as is mentioned 
in the formula, and that such death of Adam in sin, is the reason of Christ's 
advent, mission, or existence, for he must exist and there must be a reason for 
his existence, before he could die or rise again; but if the legendary, dramatic, 
pictorial or immoral cause, for Christ's existence breaks down as it must, being 
founded on perverted narrative, his existence as an effect goes with it; for it 
is a divine axiom that the effect can be of no greater validity than its cause, and 
since Adam's depicted obedience to the Moral Law, which is the law of the 
Supreme Being, utterly telescopes the immoral command, prohibiting him the 
knowledge of good and evil, which command alone, annihilates the existence 
of the Jewish God at all, as being anything but a figment of the imagination; 
consequently there is not the slightest reason or occasion for the existence of 
either the Jewish God or a sacrifice to appease his wrath. Therefore, Christ 
or the Jewish God never existed at all. Why? Because such existences are 
divested of a legitimate purpose, reason or the slightest occasion. Such beings, 
if given a footing for a single instant, would overthrow the entire moral order of 
universe. 

My infallible sentinel of truth, reports, that Original Sin, already cancelled. 



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by Adam's exile, is a paradox and passes by the Moral Law to the realm of 
absurdity. My infallible sentinel of truth, reports, that redemption of the 
world conditioned on Original Sin already cancelled by Adam's exile, executed 
by his God, is a paradox and a subterfuge, and passes by the Moral Law to the 
realm of absurdity. 

My infallible sentinel of right, reports, that a sacrifice offered by the 
church for Original Sin, already cancelled by Adam's exile, which is in execu- 
tion, of a trial, decree and sentence of the Jewish God Himself, against whose 
government the sin was directed, is in utter mockery and woeful impeachment 
of its own God's narrated management, and passes by self-contradiction to the 
realm of sophistical wrecks. 

My infallible sentinel of time reports, that the word ''Immanuel, " like 
the word ''birth," the word ''weaned" or the word "talk," each of which in 
the life of a child, is a time relation or land-mark in its history. And as the 
words: "Cry my father or my mother," signify in the context the period 
when a child shall begin to "talk," and as the words "butter and honey shall 
he eat," signify in the context the period in which a child is "weaned;" so 
the phrase "and shall call his name Immanuel, " of Isa. 7:14, is a mere rhetori- 
cal flourish signifying in the original context the period in which a child is 
"named. " And for the church as a foundation for the object of its dogma of 
redemption, to attempt to make anything more or different out of this use of 
the word " Immanuel, " in meaning as confined to the context, is to attempt 
to make something out of nothing, which is absurd; consequently, the interpre- 
tation or apostatization of the word "Immanuel" out of its signification in the 
context, indicating the period in which a child is "named," into a "God with 
us" as the bishops of the church have done, as is unmistakably verified in 
Book of Matthew, 1 :23, is the very ultimate of perversion, piracy and fraud. 

The entire figure of the Prophet Isaiah, is used merely to express a period 
of three years time, when King Ahaz's fear should cease, expressed by the words 
of Isa. 7:16: "For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose 
the good," — ^which also forever settles the question of Adam's personal respon- 
sibility under the decree of the Jewish God, Adam's sin having been committed 
during his first year, and this God's affirmation that knowledge of good and 
evil is impossible, in the figure, before the age of three — "the land thou abhorest 
shall be forsaken of both her kings, " whoperished within the time indicated, viz: 
the origin of the prophecy made B. C. 742, Isa. 7:14, Rezin's death B. C. 740, 
II Kings, 16:9, Pekah's death B. C. 742, II Kings, 15:30; a fulfillment of the 
prophecy of Isa. 7:14, which forever settles the question that Christ's prophetic 
origin from this source, is a perversion and a sham. 

When the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, has placed the Christian Relig- 
ion under the ban of immorality on account of its adoption of the delusive 
phantom of Original Sin by Adam, and its no less whimsical rhapsody of salva- 
tion enjoined by assent to the pictorial murder, crucifiction or resurrection of 
a Savior Jesus, it is high time for the races of the earth to cancel such nonsense 
from their books and to erase it from their souls. 

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every wind and wave of error, falsehood, vice and superstition that comes his 
way. The line of least resistance is to practice what is good and true. A man 
who assents to the christian plan of Original Sin and Redemption, which are 
reared from the positive perversion and contradiction of the decree, sentence 
and prophecy of the Jewish God, and which are falsehoods in open defiance 
of the regular order of the universe, and the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, 
which law is a regulative principle for the adjustment of human life on principles 
of intelligence; such a man is a slave and surrenders his assent to serfdom. 

The pretended sword of Original Sin, that oppression uses to separate man 
from the Supreme Being and to condition his chances of eternal life on the 
confession of Christ with the m^outh and belief in the New Testament descrip- 
tion of his resurrection from the dead, in order to affect a reconciliation of 
mutual confidence, rent asunder by Adam's refusal to comply with a command 
for ignorance and serfdom, the baseness of which infected the tongue of its 
utterer with the malignity of self-reproach. 

And for the purposes of tyranny, one hundred and fifty bishops find that 
the inferior, imaginary God of Adam, who is a self-confessed one of a plurality, 
is precisely the God they want for the service of their Emperor, who, for the 
most slavish obedience, will punish virtue sooner than vice, will attempt the 
expulsion of a less offense with a greater, thus making vice the rule and virtue 
the exception as was the case with this borrowed God, who punished Adam for 
virtue and protected Cain for killing Abel, with a threat of seven-fold vengeance, 
and for the personal relief of this Emperor, whose crimes in the punishment of 
virtue were not a few, this God was not only adopted but was, and is, worshipped 
and imitated throughout the Empire by about five percent of its inhabitants. 

Thus the anonymous writers of the drama of the New Testament have 
adopted a God from the score or more, of the Old Testament, that would best 
answer the purpose of joining indefensible obedience and tyranny; and they 
find that none better answer to that condition than the imaginary, mytholog- 
ical and predestinating God of Adam. Notwithstanding Genesis to the con- 
trary the maxim ''Ignorantia legis non excusat, " was in force then as now, 
and Adam took his medicine like a man, and not one single sin was ever charged 
up to him while in exile, that is, after he was one year old; but all his trans- 
gression, that is to say, not his, but all Eve's transgression while in the Garden 
of Eden, was charged up to Adam in the inspired New Testament, four thousand 
three hundred and eighty-five years later, that is, the sin of using virtue against 
tyranny or for disobedience committed during his first year; for Adam was 
expelled from Eden and a flaming sword which turned every way, was a menace 
to his return before the first year expired, and Cain was born B. C. 4003 on the 
frontier, according to the inspiration of the writer for the Jewish God, during 
the second year of Adam's existence. 

And this God of Adam, being Cain's own grandfather, on both sides, 
threatened the outstanding world after Cain had killed Abel with seven-fold 
vengance upon any who should lay hands on his grandson, and, to this end 
their inspired writer says Cain was marked. Of course Cain's marriage and 
city building in the Land of Nod where he was not knov/n, and, being over- 



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shadowed by the protecting hand of his own grandsire, all was clear sailing^ 
and Cain prospered and six generations were born to him before his mother, 
Eve, at the age of one hundred and thirty brought forth her third son, his 
brother, Seth. And Lamech of the fifth generation of Cain said, Gen. 4:23-24 
unto his wives Adah and Zellah, ''hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, harken 
unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my 
hurt. If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold, 
and Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son and called 
his name Noah, and Lamech begat sons and daughters until seven hundred 
and seventy-seven years old, and Noah, the sixth generation, descended from 
Cain, and Noah's wife, his three sons and their wives were all the human inhab- 
itants of the legendary earth that the imaginary Jewish God had permitted to 
survive the great flood, and Noah and his family were decended from Cain and 
the inhabitants of Nod, and Noah lived to be nine hundred and fifty years old. 
The destruction by flood of all flesh upon the earth except Noah and his family 
and the contents of the Ark by the Jewish God was necessitated in obedience 
to the command to Adam forbidding the knowledge of good and evil, that is 
Adam's descendants revelled in both good and evil indiscriminately as this 
God had commanded Adam to do, but when this God or his inspired narrators 
discovered how such ignorance worked, ''He repented himself that he had 
made man at all in his own image and likeness upon the earth. " So he drowned 
all the thoroughbred stock in his own image and likeness, and saved Noah, a 
descendant of Cain, crossed with the stock of the inhabitants of Nod, who were, 
doubtless, products of the universe whose God was the Supreme Being. And 
since the Nodians were not mentioned, they must have been a race, which were 
of less consequence, in the estimation of the writer inspired by the Jewish God 
than the mere animals which this God compelled to come before Adam and get 
their names. Ought not the finished work of theology to rejoice that the 
church furnishes from the imagination a God in both unity and trinity so per- 
fectly adapted and adjusted to the victims of its own making. 

The god they ascribed to Adam and Abraham was to show the masses of 
men that all that was expected of them was obedience that never looks back for 
a reason, lest they turn to a pillar of salt, or are struck dumb as was Zacharius. 
So this Jewish God whose vessels of wrath so much resembled the potter in 
mixing good and evil, became angry, and he drowned them as you would 
"cats and blind puppies," "all but Noah and Sons and his wife and his son's 
wives. " So, all who worship Cain's grandfather and claim their geneology 
from Noah can claim Cain for a great ancestor, and his God's predestined pro- 
tection from vengance as did Cain and his descendant Lamech who said. Gen. 
4:24: "If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven 
fold. " 

So all Adam's descendants were drowned but Noah, the offspring of Cain 
in the sixth generation, and his wife, his sons, and their wives. So this God of 
Adam could not bear his own offspring, created in his own likeness, punishing 
virtue, and despising the knowledge of good and evil. So he was compelled to 
repent himself and start over again with a stock whose great ancestor was Cain. 



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Cain was marked for protection and seven fold vengence should be dealt out to 
any who should slay him, so that Noah, the offspring of Cain, and his wife from 
the Land of Nod, would be a cross, and the products of this cross would escape 
the mongrel stock of Seth, who married his own sister, but, being all drowned 
in the flood that branch of the family, greatly to the advantage of the thorough- 
bred Jews, became extinct. 

But who was the god of the heathens in Nod where Cain found his wife? 
Since Adam was the first man of his God, the race of Nodians must have been 
a product of the universe whose Supreme Being was and is very little known 
about. Men have used the word God in the narrative of ancient lore, fable and 
fiction, in as familiar and commonplace a manner as though they were talking 
about the history of a family clock. Men who know less about the proper use 
of their faculties and intuitions in the acquisition of truth or right relations to be 
achieved by moral rational intelligence than the animal that is governed by 
instinct in general or by intelligence in particular. A writer who attempts to 
write about a God, and, in his work, depicts a being inferior in power of mind to 
an ordinary citizen of a free government, but equal to the designs of the despot 
in the realm of the serf or to a serf in the realm of the savage, must expect his 
product to die when the conditions which gave rise to it have vanished, and 
not before. 

Dogmas, creeds, and miracles all are subject to the same fate in the pres- 
ence of truth. To regard the universe as an effect, and, from the familiar 
axiom which declares that every effect must have a cause until an intelligent 
principle is arrived at, which then becomes its own principle of causation, and 
then, to make use of the axiom that the cause must be adequate to the effect 
in every detail and when the intelligent principle is arrived at, the man of 
reflection has arrived at the one only intelligent principle, or the Supreme 
Being, and all laws of the human mind and of the objective universe are simply 
methods of this Supreme Being's management, and, when comprehended as 
such by any human mind, such truth becomes evident, self-evident or axio- 
matic, for the mind's standard in relating the universe to his own powers or 
acquisitions and advantage. Only when man makes the laws of matter and 
mind his laws does he enjoy the freedom arising from an existence of self- 
consistency, harmony and universal fitness. 

Words are used to express something that has been thought when spoken 
or written. The words. Supreme Being, for the mind of reflection, stand for 
the principle of intelligence which for thought is the ''primal eldest" energy 
of the universe. The laws which govern the mind of the animal kingdom and 
the laws which regulate the world of matter are decrees which have their source 
in the vast principle of intelligence or the Supreme Being that backs and sup- 
ports all things. The true worshippers of this Being are the ones who seriously 
consider it worth their while to have their minds and lives harmonize with the 
mind and working order of the universe. 

For intelligence, the degree of seriousness, with which the task is pursued 
could be designated religion; the degree of skill, science, which at present, 
except by a very few individuals, are unknown. Thus seriousness and skiH 



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must go hand in hand in order to relate the universe to individual acquisition. 

It is manifest then that the worship of images, molten or made with hands, 
the products of nature's growth or development, as the sun, moon, stars or 
fabrications of human fancy, with the familiar use of the word ^^God, " 
depicted by so-called inspired Bible writers, in the guise of the trifling contemp- 
tible, insignificant, and despicbale conduct of a tyrant, dressed up in the garb 
of fiction and dealt out to the masses as inspired history of the Jewish God; 
such figures of the imagination when used for worship, are no less fetich or 
idolatrous than the worship of an Augustus Caesar, or a Marcus Antonius 
Aurelius or an image to represent them. 

Where should man look for the Supreme Being? In the infinite depths 
of space, or in the eternal depths of his own soul? Many an ingenious explorer 
has sought for this being in the great Laboratory of Nature, which is ever and 
always to look without often times at the expense of a valid exploration of 
what is within Both of these fields are exhaustless for the short space of three 
score years and ten, and I had almost said for three million score years and ten. 
But, considering the magnitude of space and its contents, and the soul of man 
and its possibilities, and the quantity of time to be used on this plain of exist- 
ence, the questions pertaining to the soul, are of vastly the most consequence. 

But the question of exhibiting the Supreme Being, from the depths of the 
human soul, from the fact that the power to enumerate is the only one that is 
equipped for the exigencies of life, will necessitate numerous repetition and 
humble detail. The faculties of the soul or powers for self-adjustment in man, 
have their origin from precisely the same source that laws that regulate the 
sun, moon, and stars have theirs. The same power that conferred upon them 
the rules that should govern their deportment and conduct with each other, 
has qualified man together with the animals, that are less capable of being 
rational than man, or the so-called instinctive animals, which are under the 
entire management of inherited endowments from progenitors plus what envir- 
onmental changes are to be overcome by such intelligences, who come vastly 
nearer reaping the full quota of temporal existence than those more capable 
of rationality and less obedient to the laws or faculties and intuitive ideas with 
which to regulate their being. 

Why is this seeming anomaly? Man, like the amphibian, is undergoing a 
change. He is now on the passage from a nature, the major of which was 
instinctive, to a nature, the minor portion of which becomes instinctive. This 
is a truth from human ontogeny, which is the evolution of the individual ''from 
the moment of conception to maturity," prenatal and subsequent, which is an 
exhibition of the evolution, in little, of the race ''from the moneron to man.'' 

The passage of man from a nature whose guidance, was in an eminent 
degree instinctive to a nature the guidance of which must be in an eminent 
degree governed by moral rational intelligence, accounts for the myriad 
specimens that drop out on the way. And awakes to the mind of suscepti- 
bility, the paramount necessity of submitting the powers to severe mechanical 
and disciplinary drill. 

The stupendous fact of evolution has given rise to this seeming anomaly 
or want of adjustment of human powers to their ends. The animal now uncon- 



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scious of its state, participates in an existence the harmony of which with 
itself and surroundings, become an object of envy by all men who fail to grasp 
the high prerogative of moral rational intelligence for self-government, which 
by the fact of evolution is now destined to the ascendant, while instinct is on 
the decline. Hence the unuterrable importance of mechanical and disciplinary 
drill for the ready application of the intuitive powers, truth and right, as sub- 
stitutes for human beings, who lack the self -regulating power of instinct; since 
as the capacity for conscious moral intelligence advances in the race, instinctive 
intelligence retrogrades, and the countless millions that drop out on the way, 
are the ones which evolution has bereft of some instinctive power by inheritance, 
and lack the energy to grasp the rope of moral rational intelligence, which is 
forever vibrating to and fro, which evolution has made inevitable for their 
rescue.' 

This being true, every possible morally guided intellectual achievement is the 
development of one more power with which to grasp the principle that leads 
to safety. 

Watch the danger signal that the hen throws out to protect its young from 
the destroyer; observe the obedience of the chicks, whose structural memory 
in turn does the like for its young, and so on and on. But these structures are 
broken down in man, and their place can only be supplied by the calculating 
faculty of reason supported and sustained by evident, self-evident or axiomatic 
moral truth or truths, which are the necessary conditions of thought, whether 
below or above the threshold of consciousness ; together with the ready knowl- 
edge of each regulative idea to which for present thought and act we may refer 
for correction; such as number, cause, time, space, infinity, beauty, resemblance, 
existence, mind, matter, truth and right. The power to enumerate is fairly well 
equipped, but what of the rest, which should become qualified with knowledge, 
with which to relate human thought for its proper application to act and deed. 

If a Hottento Priest should tell his proselyte that he was suffering to-day 
from the disobedience of an original ancestor, arising from a command pro- 
hibiting that ancestor the knowledge of good and evil, that is, knowledge of 
good and evil means knowledge with which human thought may be related or 
referred, in order to intelligently choose the good and refuse the evil; that 
Hottentot Proselyte would, through faith in the veracity of his priest, believe 
it, even if the act of disobedience had taken place, before the ancestor was 
twelve months old, as was the case with the disobedience of Adam. 

But, would such unfounded faith in the caprice and falsehood of his priest 
be a virtue or a sin in itself? Could not the Proselyte with the power of resem- 
blance, a gift of the Supreme Being, look about and compare the acts of child- 
Tiood at that age? Most assuredly, and if he fails to do this, and protect his 
powers, he lacks the common endowments for self-protection found in lower 
forms of life, and his degradation is complete; but it is high treason to question 
his preist, as it is sacrilige for the christian, to question his Jewish God, or to 
question Original Sin, and redemption of the church. 

His priest tells him he is guilty under his original ancestor's sin. But if 
he believes the word Immanuel personified by his priests into a ''God with us'* 
that is confesses him with the mouth and believes inhisheart, that another as 



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God, called God the Father, raised this " God with us" from the dead, he can be 
saved from his inherited share of the ancestor's disobedience. 

If he should ask who killed this ''God with us," he would be answered by 
his priest, that this God ''had power to lay down his life or take it again" 
but he permitted his own crucifixion to fulfill scriptures on his own word, 
verified Matt. 26:54; so that he permitted man just like you to kill him and bury 
him; and in three days the other God, called God the Father, raised him from 
the dead. And by confessing this "God with us" with the mouth, you delib- 
erately admit without question the sin of your original ancestor; and the 
crucifiction of this "God with us" as an atonement, which ancestors imputed 
and predestined sin, your intuition of right, and faculty of reason, tells you was 
a virtue, in the realm of the Supreme Being. But their voice must not be 
minded in church-sin and redemption, if you pay any attention to the intuition 
of right or the promptings of reason, in matters which are fore-ordained or 
predestined, the church can do absolutely nothing for you; in other words, 
renounce your own will, knowledge and self-determination and you are saved. 

Why, it has come to such a pass that if this "God with us" is not risen 
from the dead as described by their own New Testament, then is their preach- 
ing vain; their faith is vain; they are yet in their sins and such as are fallen 
asleep in the faith of this Savior or "God with us" are perished, even with the 
decree of their own God, Isa. 43:10:11, which states, besides me there is no 
God or Savior, staring them in the face. Even with the stupendous fact that 
the intuition of right and the voice of reason are ordinances of the Supreme 
Being. Yet must they be set aside, if you do business with our church-God, 
who punishes even virtue, conflicting with his arbitrary will. 

But as the Jewish God has in his hands the life and death of the body, 
which is verified by the mulitplied massacres instigated through his priests or 
vice-gerents, and to keep in with them, the Proselyte must deliberately pro- 
nounce the original ancestor's act a sin. Original Sin, which means that the 
Proselyte himself, is involved in the moral turpitude of feigning what he don't 
believe; and seeks pardon lest he perish under the threat of the church-God. 
Our church-God is a jealous God, who by the intercession of his bishops, visits 
the iniquities of the original ancestor upon all succeeding generations, verified, 
Rom. 5:12, and by the formula, I Cor. 15:22, which states: "For as in Adam 
all die, even so in Christ, shall all be made alive." And Rom. 10:9, "If thou 
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart 
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. " And I Cor. 15:21, 
which states: "For since by man came death, by m,an came also the resurrec- 
tion of the dead. " Which means Adam's disobedience was sin, which I by 
my intuition of right and faculty of reason, absolutely know was not a sin at 
all, even in principle, derived from figures of fiction, but was positively a virtue; 
for Adam did what was right in respect to disobedience. 

But the church by the hand of St. Peter, holds the keys to its heaven; and 

I must get there by its dogmas, so I can confess, assent to, and believe anything 

they require of me, about Original Sin and salvation for it in order to be saved. 

If you were not a christian, secular or professed, you would believe that 



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any tribe that were so morally and intellectually depraved as to trust their 
soul's eternal destiny, to the fate of such woeful sophistry and unscrupulous 
falsehood, such at least ought to be careful how they ''compass sea and land 
to make one Proselyte," lest, when he is made, he is ''two-fold more the child 
of Hell" than what he was before. But such is the Christian Religion, and in 
order to keep up the farce at home, its Proselytes are subjected to a heavy tax 
to carry on the pretention of what is being accomplished in foreign lands. 

After the writing of the New Testament, near the beginning of fifth cen- 
tury for two hundred and fifty years throughout the Roman Empire from 
Assyria to Spain, the public schools were closed in obedience to the maxim of 
I Cor. 14:38, which reads, "If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant. " And 
the said schools were not opened until 36,000 cities and villages were captured 
under Omar by the Mohammedans. 

The Christian during the eighth century, soldered brass dog collars upon 
the necks of two thirds of the male inhabitants of England, engraved with 
the word "thrall," The dogmas of Christianity that are formulated with the 
most subtle skill to secure the tyrant set forth in the New Testament, as the 
work of a dozen fisherman who are used as decoys to conceal the design of the 
trapper. The average Proselyte of the Christian Religion knows, when he 
reads, no more about the intention of the tyranneous bishops who penned it, 
than a child would the pictures in a geometry, or an ox the management of a 
whip factory. However any true citizen of the Supreme Being that keeps his 
powers unsullied with Christian Sophistry, and marshalls them in accordance 
with his intuitions and reason; such a man will scorn the falsehood that himself 
or his diety shows his power by the deliberate contradiction of himself. The 
fact that the scribes who wrote the Old Testament and the anonymous bishops - 
who wrote the New have made so familiar a use of the word " God " that the masses 
mistake from their instructors for the Supreme Being in order to cover the de- 
formity of their hypocrisy, knavery,and vice, but such can in no manner deliver 
their footsteps from the ranks of tyranny, deceit and guile. 

The base, vile, shameless, perfidious knave who will use the word "God," 
as a passport for the immoral, in order that a ruler by imitation may carry out 
his rancorous villiany can claim no apology under the moral law to screen his 
guilt; and the words II Thes. 2:10:11:12 apply to such advocates and Bible 
writers. "Because they received not the love of truth that they might be 
saved. '' Their own "God shall send them strong delusion to believe a lie that 
they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in un- 
righteousness. " When you read a book of any kind and the author uses the 
name "God" for one of his characters, and uses him to express or back the 
writer's sentimxents, ascribing his utterances to the God, setting them down 
with such God as the talker, and with his utterances in the first person, all of 
which, by poetic license would pass or as fiction would pass, unless the charac- 
ter contradicts himself, an axiom or necessary truth. But if a writer is false 
to nature in his use of a character, whether that character is named by him 
" God, man, priest, scribe, bishop or prophet, your criticism is always upon the 
writer, never upon the character he uses, unless it is borne in mind that the 



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character is always a product of the writer's imaginary prowess. To talk 
about what one of the characters in fiction as a God or an angel, said or did, is 
strictly confined to metaphor or to a figurative use of language. If you talk 
at all, confine your conversation to the consistent or inconsistent use of the 
names, acts and characters that the writer employes in his art. 

It is never what God, or an angel says. It is always and forever what the 
anonymous writer makes his character God or angel utter. The truer the 
author keeps to nature, the greater will be the care, to keep virtue and vice 
distinct. 

If the writer is in the employ, if a despot or tyrant, he will forbid the masses, 
the knowledge of good and evil. And he will as much as possible mix virtue 
and vice, and employ the word ''God" to give authority and currency to his 
perfideous sentiments, and production. Is any mxan of thought insensible to 
this truth who reads the story of Adam's disobedience? Abraham's obedience? 
Ahab's confidence in the word of four hundred lying prophets. In the fable 
of Adam, the writer uses the word ''God" as author of a command, prohibiting 
the knowledge of good and evil. Here the writer's bent expresses that he is 
a tyrant himself, or his time, is in the tyrant's service, and the word "God" is 
employed by him to give credence and majesty to his infamous purpose. But 
reflect upon the writer's treatment of the word "God" after issuing a command 
prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil, and a positive threat of death on 
the day of disobedience, and absuridity which is self-evident; for how could 
a human being act at all on its own responsibility without such knowledge. 

How could innocence or guilt attach at all without such knowledge. This 
man Adam lived thereafter nine hundred and twenty-nine years, and this God 
is forced into an admission, which in spirit, after Adam's act, contradicts his 
own command, by the words, "Behold the man has become as one of us to 
know good and evil." Which ratifies the act were its obedience possible, and 
precludes this God as a being of rational intelligence forever after, from any 
further molestation of Adam's rights from the act; but for all that, the writer 
makes this God contradict his own ratification of the act by the deliberate 
expulsion of his image and likeness made man, from the Garden of Eden. 

Thus the treatment of the writer's imaginary God suffers under his hand, 
as all else, that he undertakes, suffers. The God is forced by the writer to issue 
an immoral command; so that to continue moral at all, under the ordinance 
of the Supreme Being, Adam must disobey it. The God admits that the act 
of disobedience made Adam God-like to know good and evil; then punished 
a God-like act, which, if the God was previously in any relation moral, this 
act renders him at once consciously and positively immoral. That is, this 
God first, contradicts the Moral Law hj issuing the base and unconscienable 
command. 

Then, when he sees his error, subjects himself to enexorable self-reproach, 
by punishing what he admits he would have done himself. 

Any man of ordinary skill must know, that if a writer for oppression, puts 
the word "God, " to the task of prosecuting its ends, since the ends of oppression 
are and of necessity must be immoral, such a writer is compelled to employ 



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his character God in the interest of vice; and his working order will be vicious, 
as a fore-gone conclusion. And when virtue intrudes itself upon that order 
it will be treated as sin, and sin-offerings, whether animal or human, or the 
flesh of a God, will come along to expiate such intrusion. 

This is precisely the predicament of the Christian God adopted from the 
legend of Genesis. 

As a principle of ethics, Adam's act was commanded by the Moral Law; 
and any writer or God that his imagination is delivered of, maligning or even 
punishing the act, is necessarily on the side of vice; and if a God, such terminates 
his possible existence at all. 

If a mother commands her daughter to marry a certain man, moral rational 
obedience only, is due the mother's command. For the daughter exists in the 
moral universe of the Supreme Being, and the daughter possesses powers that 
are grown and with culture should fit the moral order of that being. One is 
her intuition of right, which is a correlate of the Moral Law. Another is the 
consciousness of her absolute duty, which is also a correlate of the Moral Law. 
The voice of her intuition of right contradicts her mother's command. The 
consciousness of her absolute duty contradicts her mother's command. 

The Christian Religion stops at the command of the mother, and, on that 
shallow sophistry is it founded. And from such shallow sophistry arose the 
daughter's imperative disregard of the command of her mother, and her abso- 
lute regard for, and obedience to, the voice of her intuition of right and sense 
of duty; and the absolute agreement of those powers with the Moral Law, her 
duty is clear and she rejects the suitor together with her mother's command, 
even in contradiction of the Bible God's command " children obey your parents. " 
Her act is the act of absolute perfection. Had she obeyed her mother and 
Bible command in contradiction of the ordinance of the Supreme Being, as 
voiced in her soul, her act would have been positively immoral, because it 
would have been in absolute contradiction of the moral order of the world. 

But the Christian Religion in the behest of tyranny stops at disobedience, 
eveii when disobedience is commxanded by the Moral Law; and that is just the 
point where the immorality of the Christian Religion or scheme of Original 
Sin -and redemption begins; when it should have gone further and found out 
that Adam's disobedience is not only justified, but is absolutely and positively 
commanded by the Moral Law. 

Which command of the Moral Law, the advent, and mission of our Lord 
and Savior Jesus Christ, must of necessity overthrow or be itself thereby made 
null and void. And obedience by Adam to such an immoral command, like 
obedience of the daughter to the immoral command of her mother, would be 
in open defiance to the moral order of the world. Which must forever settle 
the fact that the Jewish God displayed, and the Savior attending him are coun- 
terfeits. But some daughter will say, my conscience stops at the mere com- 
mand of my mother, and will go no further. Others will say it stops at the 
mere command of my Bible God, and will go no further. That is precisely 
what the child-like Christian Religion commands you to do about Original Sin 
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When you confess Christ, you admit his existence and that admits his 
mission as an expiatory sacrifice for Adam's virtue treated by the church as 
sin; and that admits Adam's disobedience to a command prohibiting the 
knowledge of good and evil was sin, Original Sin, sin unto death of all. 

Even though I am positive that the command issued from the imagination 
of a writer of an inferior, immoral, imaginary God, which was the mere product 
of his fancy and never existed at all elsewhere. Yet, I halt at the command, 
however base or immoral; I halt at the God, however vain as a despot or pro- 
duct of human fancy; I halt at the object of atonement, however unwarranted, 
even as a possible existence in the universe of the Supreme Being. Even 
though such atonement is reared upon the total wreck and utter mockery of the 
Jewish God's judgment, sentence and execution for Adam's exile. However 
such an atonement would be in open defiance of the moral order of the Supreme 
Being, arising by falsifying Isa. 7:14, into Matt. 1:22:23, and charging such 
chicanery up to the Supreme Being. I halt at the trinity of the Christian 
Gods, however such an union shall wreck the eternal ties of the one only Supreme 
Being. 

Human perfection is the agreement or the consistency of human life in 
thought, feeling, purpose and conduct, with the government of the universe; 
and rational intelligent beings demand no other freedom than that which arises 
from conformity to law. Is there any known Christian Religious creed free 
enough from falsehood to be worth the sacrifice of a single human life? No. 
Is there any narrated description by theology of the true origin of the universe? 
No. Do the Bible writings which pretend to deal with any God of the world, 
continually contradict all that they have to say about such Gods? Yes. Was 
Original Sin and its object of redemption reared in utter mockery of utterances 
ascribed to the Jewish God by the inspired writings of Moses and Isaiah? as is 
verified Gen. 2:17 and 5:5, and Isa. 7:14:15:16, and Matt. 1:23? Yes. 

Does a law of nature contradict its own purpose? No. May not the 
natural consequences of human thought and act become the infallible guide 
for human conduct, as well as the unexceptional decrees of the Supreme Being? 
Yes. Do the intuitions occasioned or evoked into conscious activity by drill 
and discipline, for the life and thought of man contradict their purpose? No. 
Or each other? No. Then they are laws of the Supreme Being exhibited in 
man? Yes. And are arrived at by the law of inference from the power of 
reason. 

If we posit a primal intelligence or Supreme Being as the origin of this 
universe, and, in our thinking, concede him as knowing, and self-consistent in 
that knowing, never lacking the foresight to conjecture how all things are to 
have their origin, growth and development, as well as to vanish or change in 
form. 

If the powers of man are a growth, necessitated and correlated with the 
forces in the universe about him for the adjustment, protection, preservation 
and perfection of his being. If the Supreme Being derived from rational infer- 
ence to be the entity of the universe, is the one from which this order, has its 
origin, then all imaginary Gods of both Old and New Testament set up by 



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writers whose limited powers contradict this law and order, are spurious and 
the tyranny therein set forth to which the word ''God" has been freely applied 
to give it emphasis and currency, is the work of ignorance or guile. 

Every dogma for obedience that drives an Adam to the forest for the 
exercise of truth and right in gaining knowledge for the management of his 
conduct. That chases a Sarah into a lie of denial for a smile at absurdity. 
That strikes dumb the innocent priest for requesting a reason, when confronted 
with absurdity. That strikes dead two innocent priests for burning incense 
with strange fire. That strikes dead an innocent laborer who puts forth his 
hand to steady the ark of a God in positive imitation of Egyptian idolatry. 
That never looks back for a reason lest they petrify to salt. 

Every dogma for obedience that drives an Adam to the forest for the abso- 
lution of an act of unassailable virtue, truth and right; that curcifies a Christ 
to absolve virtue, which to the eternal chagrin of the judgment, sentence and 
execution of the Jewish God, had already been absolved by Adam's exile. 

That makes an ignominous death a bribe to license sin. That makes an 
immoral faith resting upon an indefensible curcifixion, the condition of being 
saved. That makes the virtue of an Adam the transgression of all mankind. 
Such is nothing short of downright mockery to the infallible ordinances of the 
Supreme Being. 

Men of sense are aware that faculties having their origin, growth and devel- 
opment right here, cannot be bribed with the debasing dogmas of Original Sin, 
with a Savior's merits or demerits in submission to the ''death of the cross" 
with twelve legions of angels at his disposal without arresting their power. 

When you arrest or challenge the power of any faculty or intuition, you 
subvert the natural order of its growth. When the church puts forth its dog- 
mas of total depravity, vicarious atonement, means of grace and absolution, 
and affirms that they will furnish you these fictions to lighten the burden of 
the legitimate use of your faculties and intuitions, powers being merely ordi- 
nances of the Supreme Being in the soul, which alone is falsely intimated, could 
never save you. 

Make up your mind that these overtures are spurious, and the underlying 
meaning is for a substantial consideration, you can enter our church. To deny 
evident, self-evident, or axiomatic truth that the mind has once achieved, 
whether such denial be by arbitrary disputation, or by giving assent to a faith, 
creed, or dogma that contradicts such truth, is as fatal to the mind's integrity 
as to challenge one of the nine faculties or twelve regulative ideas, truth, evi- 
dent, self-evident, or axiomatic is a correlate in the mind of some law or fact 
of mind or matter in the world about us. And a demonstration of the mind's 
legitimate province arises from the fact that the order of nature, as Huxley 
affirmed, "is ascertained by our faculties to an extent which is practically 
unlimited. " 

As the faculties and intuitions are fixed standards or guides, so also are 
evident, self-evident, and axiomatic truths, as fast acquired, fixed standards, 
for guiding the mind from the shoals of sophistry into the tranquil waters of 
truth. 



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The libel of the Original Sin of Adam absolved through the double expia- 
tion, first, Adam's exile; second, obedience to 'Hhe death of the cross" called 
merits of Jesus, couched in the dogma I Cor. 15:22, ^'For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made alive, " which disputes the axiom that ''Na- 
ture is uniform," disputes the voice of the standard ideas that the mind uses 
as a system of knowledge in the reduction of the world, in whole or in part to 
its own advantage. Disputes the Moral Law, which is the mind's principle 
source of integrity in the use and discovery of truth and right relations. There- 
fore, for the mind to give its assent to so pernicious a falsehood is a sin against 
light. 

When error, falsehood and superstition vanish from the proselytes of 
Christianity as it does in all minds that rely on the truths of rational discovery 
and investigation; then every child that graces its mo^^her's arms, will wear the 
crown of original purity. Its deluded mother will never cross its innocent smile 
with the thought of Original Sin, total depravity, the fall of man, frescoed with 
"He that belie veth and is baptised shall be saved, but he that belie veth not, 
shall be damnned. " Original Sin! The merits of Jesus! What a coronation 
for the off-spring of free institutions. If Christaindom don't cancel this vilifying 
libel against man, woman, child and the Supreme Being, her doom is as sure as 
the false must perish. Since these damnatory dogmas, couched in the words 
''For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive, " is the maxi- 
mal subterfuge, paraded by the anonymous bishops who wrote the New Testa- 
ment, and by their subordinates in the pulpit down to the present time ; and are 
the maxims on the tongues end of the Proselyte of every Chistian sect consoling^ 
himself with the self -flattery that he, as well as his God, only shows his power, 
when he contradicts his end-purpose. Such is the shameless bickering with 
which christian sophistry degrades man below the dignity of his nature. Such 
is nothing short of down right mockery to the Supreme Being, and an affront 
to the majesty of his laws, that are, when discovered and appropriated, the 
maxims and axioms of the human mind. 

Think of the bishops of the church, charging the fabulous Adam, with 
sin for the virtuous act of distinguishing good and evil. Then because the 
character, before a year old attempts to distinguish good from evil for the 
church to make all men sinners, for such an attempt by vicarious deputation is 
the very ultimate of perfidy. Since a knowledge of distinguishing good from 
evil, is a law of human nature, as native to man; for the regulation of his life 
upon the earth, as the law of gravity is native to bodies that float the limitless 
bounds of space. 

Thus the knowledge of the Moral Law for an intelligent discrimination of 
good to be chosen, or of evil to be rejected, is an inborn necessity for self- 
preservation, in an intellectual moral or physical sense. But such is the high- 
handed sophistry of Christian Bishops, that they borrow an imaginary God for 
their purpose; and set up a creed that sets at naught the most vital conditions 
of well being upon the earth, which is a knowledge of good and evil, and brands 
it a sin, verified Rom. 5:12, which can only be counteracted by the merits of an 
atoning Savior; that is to say, predestination means, that vicarious or imputed 



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sin can only be cancelled by vicarious atonement, but the Proselyte must have 
faith in the process; that is, he must surrender, and give up, all self-determina- 
tion; and yield himself a sort of conductor, through which the dogma of pre- 
destination may freely work. A good subject for the imposition of hypnotism. 

If Adam had obeyed the command prohibiting him the knowledge of good 
and evil, which knowledge on the supposition of human responsibility, which is 
a condition of rational existence at all, and therefore right, it could only have 
been done by crushing the native intuition of right and obliterating altogether 
human responsibility, which would, other conditions regular, be a vice in itself. 
But by disobeying, Adam was true to the native intuition of right, which is a 
virtue in itself, and is sanctioned by the voice of the Supreme Being. Hence 
it follows that salvation or forgiveness for this act of disobedience of Adam, 
which stands proven a virtue, and agrees with the intuition of right, means a 
Savior to forgive right and virtue, which would make vice the standard for 
conduct. Thus the dogma of Original Sin, is taken from the incidents of a 
fable that not only lacks the merit yielding a moral, but on the contrary yields 
a vice under the writer's intention. And the dogma of salvation is to atone 
for an act that not only lacks the merits of being a sin, but on the contrary, 
is to atone for an act, which is positively commanded by the Moral Law. 

In the dogma of Original Sin, disobedience is punished by Adam's expulsion 
from Eden, and that too, at the expense of the self-reproach of the God that 
issued the command. At the expense of the moral rectitude of the writer, who 
makes use of such a God for his purposes. At the expense of Adam's absolute 
duty to obey the Moral Law. And at the positive expense of human accounta- 
bility at all. 

Thus to punish virtue, is to offer a premium, in all the ramifications of 
thought for crime, which cancels absolutely the use of the word ^' God "made 
by the writer of the fable, as being in any sense, meaning or application, capable 
of standing for the true Ruler and Intelligence of the universe. 

Thus for the Christian Bishops to offer insult to injury by offering up a 
sacrifice, for Adam's act already cancelled by his exile, is not only an offense 
to the Jewish God, but is a desecration to the ordinances to the Supreme Being. 

The Devil, Himself, was never caught in a worse trap than an attempt at 
forgiving an act of virtue; and then as a recompense to claim the principle 
seat beside the Jewish God, proves their affinity. 

Those bishops who founded the Christian Religion, and wrote the New 
Testament, must have been short of material to concoct Original Sin upon a 
command, the disobedience of which was inevitable, should Adam remain true 
reason, and the native intuition of right. 

For argument's sake, provisionally grant it possible that so immoral a 
command, could issue from the Supreme Being, its obedience being in con- 
flict with the Moral Law, would merge the act of disobedience into the higher 
law of right, which of necessity would raise the act, so merged, to an act of 
virtue of the highest merit. 

But such a command would at once cancel the Supreme Being, and class- 
ify him with the Jewish God. Thus it is manifest that the anonymous bishops 



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who made the New Testament a record of their own votes as dogmas of the 
Christian Religion a record of Old Testament prophecies to sustain them, 
which were fulfilled, embellished, elaborated and contradicted after such 
flourish as their nature dictated, confirming what they adopted by the words 
II Peter 1 :21 : ''For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but 
by Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, " so that 
by the license of inspiration one sign could be tortured to yield whatever was 
wanted, even to the changing of an abstract word for time into a concert object 
of worship and atonement. But the more unerring the prophecy in the original 
context, the greater the perfidy of those who torture mere words by apostatiz- 
ing their meaning into yielding up another ''God with us" when mythology 
is already flooded with them. 

But the case is not quite so bad when one God is sacrificed to another, if 
it had ended there, but it does not. The entire human race are clandestinely 
dragged into the mix-up, and the superstitions become inoffensive or conscienable 
by habit, belief and imitation. 

But in furnishing the sacrifice, the church in flattery of the prowess and in 
mockery of the judgment of the Jewish God's execution of Adam to a life of 
exile, who was already a tyrant in full zeal, who could whip virtue and protect 
vice with a zest that lacked not the slightest scruple, but the shameless sur- 
render made, by the Christian Bishops, to this already ^'too much flattered" God 
of all human rights in the Supreme Being, all rights of the soul's integrity to 
the Moral Law, by yielding confidence to the senseless dogmas of Original Sin 
and vicarious redemption, who grew over this God, in one night the gourd of 
atonement, that is, one-third of the trinity feigns crucifixion to cancel the 
wrath of the remainder, but the Worm of contradiction to the Moral Law, is 
the sure destroyer of the entire firm of these Gods. 

Four thousand of whose temples were destroyed as being blasphemous 
by the Caliphs of Mahomet in the seventh century and left their victims to 
faint and perish in the sun of burning error. 

But be it known, that every attempt to break down the moral order of the 
Supreme Being must face the cyclone of the equilibrium of moral forces. 

The necessary ideas of the human soul as gifts from an exceedingly wise 
benefactor when evoked and disciplined so as to become an aquistion are an 
invincible fortress against the assaults of the forces of oppression. The weapons 
of eternal truth are two-edged, and when falsehood attempts to conceal its 
hideous form under the guise of religion by the weapons of right and truth, the 
mask is torn from its visage and the victim is dragged to the searchlight of 
investigation, where remorse, self-reproach, shame, chagrin, moral turpitude 
and every vice that has a name, "cries guilty," An atonement in the guise 
of a Savior to forgive, what the Moral Law pronounces an absolute virtue, which 
the judgment and sentence of a God, was helpless to bring to pass, is only another 
Adam, Jonah, or Hottentot, which is victimized to make secure the throne of 
the tyrant. The anonymous bishops, who by the mouth of their victim, states 
"He that belie veth, (that means in my advent, mission and resurrection) and 
is baptized, shall be saved, but he that belie veth not shall be damnned. " 



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Those brave bishops should have had the courage to add, but if the Jesus 
reared from the word ''Immanuer' in downright defiance of its signification 
for time as used by the Jewish God in the original context, is a counterfeit which 
our votes fathered, mothered, crucified, buried, raised, ascended and seated, 
the account of which for personal safet}^ we antedated four hundred years is 
only immoral fiction in downright mockery of the judgment, sentence and 
execution of the Jewish God upon Adam; then we will consent to be eternally 
damned in your place. 

I am sure this challenge will lower the ''pluming crest" of any clergyman 
versed in Biblical Mythology. Go to Isaiah, written over one thousand years 
before the time riddle of King Ahaz, came second-handed to the foundation 
of the Christian Religion. Go to Psalms, written over one thousand years 
before used by the anonymous bishops as prophecies which their votes fulfilled, 
verified Ps. 22:16:18, by the words: "They pierced my hands and my feet, 
they parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. '' 

So also the sign of Jonah, prefigured, Isa. 14:9, who was "three days and 
three nights in the belly of the fish" written over one thousand years before 
used by the church as a time riddle, for the period in Hell of the Savior Jesus, 
confirmed Ps. 16:10. "For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell. " Also I Cor. 
15:21, are the words: "If Christ be not raised your faith is vain, ye are yet 
in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. " 
That is, they are beyond the reach of "restitution large of gold and jewels 
fobbed from them," as remunerative, clerical service for an abstract and clear 
title to a mansion in the skies; when all you have is a bunk to fall asleep in and 
perish, then comes the consoling remark, I told you, "If Christ is not risen, then 
is our preaching vain, your faith is vain, yea, and we are found false witnesses 
of God; for we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised 
not up, if so be that the dead rise not, " in other words, unless it is a law of 
nature in which all share alike, then they that are fallen asleep in Christ are 
perished. So you wagered your eternal destiny on a chance with no greater 
security in the church than out of it; and had to swallow total depravity and 
Original Sin from our "pill-box, Johnny Raw" and pay for it. 

Can any human being with the least vestige of rational or moral sense, fail 
to see the utter folly of wasting a human life spent in gambling on Christ's 
concrete resurrection from the dead, which is an absurdity, than which, for 
human thought, there is no greater. 

Instead of flitting life away on such shallow sophistry, the soul should be 
identifying eternal truth with its powers and the conscious use of necessary 
truths, until they become habitual. 

If the mind looks after the perfection of its nature in these respects it will 
have no time to wager its eternal destiny on such ridiculous a dogma as that a 
Flourish of Rhetoric should rise from the dead. 

Who or what do the clergy think they are talking to, when they call men 
to face the false and malicious libel of their soul's death in sin, imputed by the 
church by vicarious deputation from Adam's disobedience? Do men under- 
stand this piece of deception, falsehood and knavery into which their intuitions 
have been tricked? 



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The faculty of reason is responsible for the good or evil, virtue or vice, wis- 
dom or folly, truth or sophistry of any thought or utterance spoken or written, 
whether overshadowed by the word, God, Angel, Ghost, Baalim, Prophet or 
either or all of the score or more of the Gods used for worship in the Holy 
Scriptures. 

And when upon the test of a necessary truth, or the Moral Law, a thought 
or act is proven unwise, injurious, false, self-contradictory, absurd, or to con- 
tradict the moral, or the rational activity, of any faculty or intuition of the 
mind, it is the reason that is to correct it, and never let the force of error 
^'translate the reason into its likeness. '' 

If a man does not investigate for his truth, for want of time or interest in 
his own welfare, and is otherwise competent, but accepts haphazzard what he 
chances to light upon, wholly in imitation of others and he makes pretentional 
assent to the plan of Original Sin and Salvation; both of which the church orig- 
inated by perverting the narratives of Gen. 2:17, and Isa. 7:14, out of their 
meaning in the original context; and with this pretention and subterfuge for 
authority, he goes on probation, is accepted and joins the church. He is 
offered the doctrine of Original Sin, meaning the spiritual death of all mankind 
inherited from the spiritual death of Adam, for his act of disobedience, arising 
from a command prohibiting him the knowledge of good and evil, which means 
the intuitive, or educated power of distinguishing good from evil. 

Obedience to this God's command to Adam which was for the innocent and 
indiscriminate revel in good and evil, brought down his invincible wrath in 
such fury that except for the contents of Noah's ark, and savages like the inhab- 
itants of Nod; all flesh from the face of the earth had perished. Obedience to 
this God's command to Adam indulged in by the cities, caused him to lay waste 
by fire and brimstone, Sodom and Gomorrah. Disobedience to this God's 
same command caused him to send Adam into nine hundred and twenty-nine 
years exile. Thus this God whose caprice is so convenient for rulers, punish- 
ing both obedience and disobedience to the same command; that for perpetual 
ignorance He is the very kind of a God that they delight to imitate. 

Does the victim who has made a pretentional assent to the plan of Original 
Sin and redemption, and joined the church ever find out just what constituted 
the sin for which he now stands redeemed? 

He is told that Adam disobeyed God, and, if he pays his share of the salary 
and running expenses of his church, the rest will all be taken care of for him, 
thus he turns the crank which grinds off his own nose. Do you think his clergy- 
man could tell the convert the truth about Adam's disobedience if he tried? 
I do not. Suppose this new Proselyte after he thinks the matter over, should 
say to the pastor; How old according to the scriptures, was Adam when he 
disobeyed? If the pastor tells the truth, he must answer, that according to the 
dates in the Bible, Adam disobeyed during the first year of his existence. 

In that case, the Proselyte would answer, Adam's disobedience, on account 
of his a2;e would exonerate me, form sin through him; and if my fraction of 
Original Sin, as you call it, comes from his, I am exonerated and my absolute 
innocence is vindicated. What do you mean, says the Proselyte? You have 



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falsified to me. I am no sinner through Adam. The Christian Religion says 
you are, replies the clergyman. Then the Christian Religion is false, and I'll 
have no more of it. 

Who is in the transgression, the Proselyte or the clergyman? Why the 
clergyman, who would trap the Proselyte into a " child of Hell " without sufficient 
reason, unless he can plead incompetency, and the Christian Religion that made 
him so. Suppose a new joiner of the church is struck with the notion that 
knowledge of good and evil, or to be able by means of such knowledge, to dis- 
tinguish and choose the good and reject the evil, is light; but to revel in good 
and evil indiscriminately, which means ignorance of good and evil, is wiong; 
and contradicts the conditions of human existence upon the earth at all; hence 
it contradicts the Moral Law, and is most decidedly wrong. 

But it is absolute and imperative duty to obey the Moral Law, and com- 
mands to the contrary if obeyed, are sin, and commands to the contrary if 
disobeyed, in obedience to the Moral Law under the allegiance of any God are 
merged by the Moral Law, the highest tribunal of the human soul, and thus 
become a positive virtue. 

When a man on the strength of the Divine plan of Original Sin and redemp- 
tion, leads a life of fraud and piracy, distorting his faculties and intuitions until 
near the close of life, then to disgorge an outraged reason, conscience and other 
powers, he assents for relief to the Christian Religion, and with a patched-up 
compromise by a plea of guilty, imposed by the church as a condition of escape 
from Original Sin; even though his soul's standards challenge the whole system 
as a fraud, which misplaced confidence, in the scheme of Redemption, helped 
him in the first place to renounce the path of virtue, which is tantamount to a 
premium on vice. 

And thus to cancel his demerits on a Savior's merits, be it known that the 
Savior of New Testament fame had no merits to spare, if he died to atone for 
virtue, which is the unassailable inference from the context; since he is to atone 
for Adam's disobedience to a command for complete ignorance of good and evil, 
he was surely in the ranks of vice, whether a "God with us" or God against us, 
and whether fiction or myth. 

After the death and resurrection of the Savior and the arduous task of 
memorizing and writing the New Testament, had been achieved by the twelve 
decoys, called apostles, but before Christ's final ascension from earth to sky, 
Simon Peter, who 'Hestifieth of these things and wrote these things, and there 
are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written 
every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books 
that should be written," verified John 21:24:25, which is an hyperbole on both 
world and books. What a possible library for the imagination to use in falsi- 
fying the Koran, which makes the reduction of the Jewish God to thirds 
blasphemy. 

This Simon Peter for relaxation says to a bunch of his brother fishermen, 
''I go a fishing," Thomas, Nathaniel, James, John and two other of his disciples, 
whose names Simon Peter had forgotten, said unto them we go also with thee; 
John 21:3. After a night of no luck, Jesus stood on the shore in the morning, 



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and by his direction, one hundred and fifty-three great fish were caught; just 
three more fish than it took bishops to tell it. The hero and characters that 
the New Testament writers would father the work on too as sea-walkers, tent- 
makers, fishermen and men whose vocation would scarcely permit them to 
know their own names when written, shows the subtle trick of the church, and 
its anonym^ous bishops who used decoys or tame elephants to catch those, whose 
powers have not as 3^et been withered in the stockade, verified by the words 
from fisherman Peter, II Peter 1:16, who states: ''We have not followed 
CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES when we made known unto you the power and 
COMING of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty." 
Do these words sound like a man whose vocation was to follow the sea, or like 
St. Gregory Chrysostom and Jerome the class of men, like Paul the tent-maker, 
or Peter, the fisherman, whose names are set down as decoys, to father this 
work, are mere puppets, or cat's-paws to handle the coals for the tyrant. 

Would a writer named Paul set down the words, ''For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Chiist shall all be mxade alive, " and in the next breath write, "Adam 
was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, was in the transgression? 
"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedi- 
ence of one shall many be made righteous. " 

Would an author, whose pretended writings are saturated with Adam's 
disobedience, which is a dozen times verified in Romans, Chapter Five, turn on 
himself and say, "Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived, was 
in the transgression, " You might as well say the Virgin Mary atoned for Orig- 
inal Sin by the sacrifice of her " God the Son, " as to say that Eve committed it. 

This New Testament is the work of anonymous bishops, written between 
the years A. D. 381, and A. D. 432. Their formula I Cor. 15:21, which reads, 
" For since by man came death, by man come also the resurrection of the dead. " 
By such formulas as the foregoing, the church in its arrogance would have all 
men believe that the regular order of the universe in regard to life and death 
had been brought about by the deliberations of its council of one hundred and 
fifty bishops in council convoked by Emperor Theodosius the Great, A. D. 381. 

Does this look like the work of tent-makers or shark-drivers, who follow 
the sea? Why, gentlemen and ladies, the destiny of your souls when launched 
in this air-ship of falsehood, is at the mercy of men, whose disguise is so subtle, 
whose lust for power and affluence is so invincible "that it were an easy leap 
to pluck laurels" from the throne of heaven, "Or to dive into the bottom of 
the deep, " and pluck up drownded Croesus by the locks, so mankind may drop 
their game and nestle doglike at their feet. 

Surely "by man, (that is to say, the bishops of the church) came death" 
that is to say came Adam's death for disobedience, which by the legend his God 
commuted to exile, and by man came Christ's resurrection, for obedience to the 
"death of the cross" to fulfill scripture in origin Isa. 7:14, and purpose Isa. 53; 
but not by the man Adam or the man Jesus, but by one hundred and fifty of 
them, designated bishops whose crushing dogmas have tyrannized the rational 
thought of Christendom for fifteen centuries. The writer for Adam's God now 
ataches the name " God " to give credence and currency to his premature inven- 



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tion, who in effect teaches that obedience to the intuition of right is sin; that 
obedience to the Moral Law is sin; that obedience to known absolute duty is 
sin; that disobedience to a command compelling self-reproach to the tongue 
that issues it is sin, 

A God depicted by an inspired writer who is so immoral, who is so ignorant 
that he is insensible, that to punish virtue is offering a premium for crime, 
is a demonstration that the writer was absolutely at a loss to know what the 
word '' God " stands for, otherwise than the caprice of a savage chief. His name 
being appended to Adam's guilt, Cain's innocence, Ahab's conspiracy, all of 
which is the absolute contradiction of what we know to be divine laws for the 
management of human life in this world. 

Such falsehood, which the church has designated the inspired word of God, 
is the very apex of impotence as ethical principle. Does any human being in 
his right senses suppose that it is for the interest of the Supreme Being to con- 
clude all of his possible moral intelligences forever to be born, under sin; that 
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 
Believe what? That unassailable virtue maligned and used for the purposes of 
oppression is sin, a thousand millions under the ban of sin by the church in order 
that five percent of that number who will compromise their integrity with such 
folly can be saved. Thus the Christian Religion that has cost millions of lives 
to establish and millions of dollars annually to support; that makes the destiny 
of man for eternal life, depend upon the fiction of Christ's resurrection from the 
dead, which in turn is conditioned on Adam's disobedience being sin unto death, 
called in church parlance, Original Sin, but since it has been proven that the 
act attributed to Adam, whether the narrative be fable, fiction or an event of 
history, was a virtue, there is not the slightest use in the world for an atone- 
ment. So that to forgive or atone for an act of virtue, the saciifice may as 
well be a Devil outright as a Christ. One is as much by moral necessity in 
the ranks of vice as the other. So by the Chirstian Religion what must become 
of those who have fallen asleep in Christ? Why according to their own 
religion, they are perished. 

But the Supreme Being, whose intelligence backs this universe, will never 
let one church deluded soul perish on that account: The Christian Religion, 
which for fifteen centuries has only deluded, about five per cent of the earth's 
inhabitants, and those predestined to eternal torment by the Jewish God are 
to come out of that; will no more influence the Supreme Being than as though 
it had never existed, or achieved its origin at the instance of the bishops of the 
church, it being founded in error and falsehood and being itself erroneous and 
false, to see mankind contradicting axiomatic truth, contradicting the voice 
of truth and right, which are the Supreme Being's infallible gifts to man, could 
only aiouse his commiseration to see them set at naught by inadvertance, neg- 
ligence, authority and falsehood. Even from the standpoint of the God who 
issued the command, Adam is immune from being rationally treated a sinner. 
But in spite of the self-contradiction of both the God and writer, the writer 
through the mouth of his God sentences Adam to hard labor for life, and the 
command prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil stands vindicated an 
image and likeness of the God that issued it. 



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It is manifest that such a God was manufactured; not from brass, clay or 
marble to sit mummy-like and be worshipped; but was turned out of the mill 
of human fancy, or was imagined by a writer whose blood and brains were 
nurtured from the coffers of a ruler who delighted to imitate just such a God, 
and this God whose methods can only be known by the deeds ascribed to him 
by his inspired originators, was just what struck the spirit of Emperor Thoedo- 
sius with delight. A God that only knew what was going on, on earth, by the 
report of his messengers for the Court of Theodosius, was more than satis- 
factory. 

A Father prohibits his son upon entrance to college from the study of moral 
philosophy which is elective, but the son after a discussion with his new asso- 
ciates concludes that if he wishes to know anything rightly he must study moral 
philosophy; he adds it to his curriculum. 

When he goes home on a furlough, his father discovers a moral improve- 
ment in his behavior, and says to the son, are you dabbling in moral philosophy? 
The son frankly says, I am in pursuit of moral philosophy. The father says to 
himself or wife, that knowledge, has made a man of the boy but he has dis- 
obeyed my command, therefore no more school for him. The father turns him 
over to a bushwhacker till of age. Would any man or boy pronounce that 
father normal, rational, or sane? Why no. That father has gone mad on 
nursing his arbitrary will. He intrudes his power to wield authority, because 
he can, not because it is right. And that is precisely the kind of a God the 
writer had fixed up for the superstition of his age; and the christians adopted, 
verified, by the words: ''He hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will 
he hardeneth, " which is predestination in full force and his followers are the 
mere puppets of his caprice like the subjects of a savage chief. The effect is 
just the same upon the Proselyte even if it is an imaginary God, for the morality 
of the chief or God, will be the measure of the morality of his subjects; and the 
conduct, and character of the God will be imitated by his subjects, let it be 
virtuous or criminal, which shows the imperative necessity of a pure God. 
What must be said about the son's act after the acknowledged admission of 
progress by the father? We must say that the son's disobedience under the 
circumstances was a virtue. That the act of disobedience merges in obedience 
and regard for the higher law of moral rational intelligence, which the father 
ratified by admission to himself or wife, of the advantage narrated, and as a 
rational being, is forever stopped from punishing. For punishment then inflicted 
like Adam's expulsion from Eden, could only be in flattery, of a wicked, arbi- 
trary, conceited disposition to exhibit the authority of indefensible command 
at the expense of decency, as well as the Moral Law. The father's ratification 
contradicts the rational possibility of treating the son's disobedience a sin, 
unless peradventure, the father turn to his own compromising and irrational 
nature, and thus soliloquized, my own understanding of moral philosophy has 
prevented me fiom the wickedness that I should otherwise have delighted in 
doing; ergo; such knowledge will affect my son the same way. 

Now then all christians who stand by Original Sin and redemption con- 
ditioned thereon take sides in both theory and practice, with that father who 



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turned his son over to a bushwhacker for disobedience. This is precisely the 
metaphorical sin of Adam, who was prohibited the knowledge of good and 
evil, which is moral philosophy, and which knowledge is positively commanded 
by the Moral Law. 

As the fable goes, Adam served nine hundred and twenty-nine years at 
hard labor. Why? Merely to satisfy the tyranny of obedience under any and 
all circumstances, upon which this God had gone mad, that is the dogma of 
obedience had become a mania dominating every other power of his nature, 
the same as the father employed in the above relation. Do you see yourself? 
Your God? Your religion? If you do reform it altogether and examine your 
intuitions of resemblance, identity, truth and right and begin to exist with the 
Supreme Being as your Deity. And wrest your allegiance from an apology 
from meanness and infamy. It is true that the Christian Religion teaches that 
the conditions of eternal life or destiny of the christian soul, all depend on the 
incident of Christ's resurrection from the dead, which in turn depends on 
Adam's disobedience being a sin, which in turn depends on the utter defeat of 
the Moral Law. The ordinance in chief of the Supreme Being for the thought 
and conduct of man. 

Do you ask what would happen to Christ, if it turned out that Adam did 
not sin at all? But that his disobedience was commanded by the Moral Law 
of the Supreme Being, since the act of disobedience ascribed to him, was in 
agreement with the eternal principle of right, and Adam's intuition of right, 
which makes a character whose acts agree with an eternal principle and are 
self-consistent, enlisting the moral approbation of man and the Supreme Being, 
as manifested in him. 

What has already happened? Why, Christ is out of employment in True 
Ruler's service. The True Ruler, will not have any one sitting at his right hand 
that has treated the virtue of his moral world a sin. He don't keep such com- 
pany. If he did, I for one, should shun him. It is self-evident that the Supreme 
Being has no use whatever for the bishops Jesus, or God the Son, who ''thought 
it not robbery to be equal with God. " 

However, except as fiction, he did not exist, even to live, to die, or to have 
the Supreme luxury of rising from the dead. 

But the Christian Religion and the New Testament its voucher, has staked 
every hope of its followers and believers on this absurd and impossible incident, 
verified, I Cor. 15:14: ''And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain, 
if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. Then they 
also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. " Here is the hope of every 
christian sect on earth, with the eternal destiny of their souls wagered against 
a most trifling and precarious incident, and every vestige of the christians hope 
of eternal life, is staked on this, precarious object, regardless of whether such 
a being ever existed; regardless of whether there was any use whatever in the 
jfealm of the Supreme Being for him to exist. Since his pictorial advent, was 
to forgive an act of virtue, which had already been subjected by the Jewish 
God in unity, to penal servitude by Adam's exile. 

In Matt. 18:21, are found the words: "Then Peter said, Lord how often 



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shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him, until seven times, Jesus 
said not until seven times, but until seventy times seven. " 

Then he parables a certain king that forgave a subject the debt of ten 
thousand talents. But because the subjects forgave not a fellow subject, that 
owed him one hundred pence, the king revoked the discharge, ''was wroth, 
and delivered him to the tormentors till he pay all" ''So likewise shall my 
heavenly father do "'also unto you," 

Does the rule seventy times seven hold good? By whom is this Jesus 
employed? Who deals out four hundred and ninety per cent greater license, 
in forbearance, unto his kings and Gods in their dealing with the masses, than 
the masses are allowed in dealing with each other. Is he not a mercenary in 
the employ of tyranny? 

If the intuition of right is used against a command, however base in its 
effect, if the word "God" is employed in the connection; — sentenced to death 
or hard labor for life as was the case of Adam. If a smile is indulged, at the 
absurdity of a remark; — chased into a lie of denial as was Sarah. If the head 
is turned to view the validity of a threat to destroy by fire a mother's off-spring; 
— petrified to a pillar of salt. If the men of Antioch call for reconsideration of 
a double tax levied upon them; — death by massacre, torture, and whips with 
leaden balls. If one hundred and fifty thousand Romans strike for freedom; — 
nail six thousand of them to crosses and fence the Appian way from Capua to 
Rome with their bodies to warn mankind of its fate and the price of freedom. 

Will the oppressor let go his grip? Does the rule seventy times seven, hold 
at all in dealing with tyrants or their Gods? Never! In place of sacrificing a 
Jonah to calm the storm that the hungry billows be assuaged, with a morsel 
of human fiesh, or a Hottentot be victimized, should the prophecy of his priest 
miscariy. 

One hundred and fifty bishops at the Court of Emperor Theodosius, by 
the most unconscionable artifice to incriminate the human race ever known 
in the annals of Charlatan Fanaticism: — not a single Jonah or Hottentot, but 
the entire human race are victimized v/ith the most debasing libel; as original 
sinners against a God, arising from the disobedience of the man Adam before 
twelve months old, to a command for the suppression of knowledge of good and 
evil admitted by the God to be unknowable at that age, verified Isa. 7:16, 
which libel is adopted by the church, and couched in the formula, Rom. 5:12, 
"For as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world and death by sin, so 
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " 

Millions of barbarous Goths were pouring into the Roman Empiie at the 
time A. D. 381; and the church pretended that their invention was to humble 
the barbarian. Baptism was all that constituted the Christian Religion up to 
the time of the council of Emperor Theodosius the Great, A. D. 381, when the 
bishops added to baptism the formula, "For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive, " and all other dogmas of any note of the Christian 
came into existence, which was followed at the close of the fourth and begin- 
ning of the fifth centuries by the writing of the New Testament, in which those 
dogmas are elaborated in the form of historic drama. 



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Emperor Valens, A. D. 378, who was a christian by ''Baptism Alone," 
admitted a million Goths into the Empire; who were plundered and pursued 
by the savage Hunns, on condition that they give up their arms and receive 
Baptism, which was accepted, but Emperor Valens perished and his army suf- 
fered defeat at their hand at Adrianople soon after. Then follows the Christian 
Religion and the New Testament filled with the stupendous artifice of Original 
Sin and redemption, which humiliates and divests the masses of moral power 
and binds them as serfs in closer allegiance to their Emperor. 

And in further flattery, to the caprice of the Jewish God, who is now, since 
reduced to fractions, the new God of the Empire, it should be m.ade to appear 
that Adam's virtue, used against this God's immoral command to Adam, 
shall, throughout the New Testament, be treated as a vice, and shall, be treatecl 
by the beliefs and creeds of the Christian Religion, a vice, and an affront to the 
majesty of this new God in unity. Since for his immoral command, he had 
been flouted in the face with the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, through 
Adam's infallible sentinel of right. 

A sin of such woeful enormity against the authority of power, launched by 
the church against all mankind in flattery of this new God and support of the 
throne, that every man, woman or child, forever to be born on this planet, 
must bear his fractional part of this affront, called in church parlance. Original 
Sin, Total Depravity, the Fall of Man, Death, formulated, Rom. 5:12, ''Where- 
fore as by one man sin entered into the World, and Death by sin, so Death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " 

And in further flattery of this God, the rule of Peter's seven times or the 
ruleof Jesus' seventy times seven, between fellow subjects; and to be turned over 
to the tormentors for the first offense, as between Gods or kings and their subjects; 
— all of which is not enough, but "the slow Unmoving footseps" of Tyranny and 
Usurpation, has crawled to the dogma of forgiveness in Advance of any sin 
whatever; that is, Adam's offense to this God, is readjudicated and made 
infinitely divisible and fractional in all mankind; and the anonymous bishops 
use the mouth of the victim, fresh from Hell, to deliver the christian words, 
bristling with eternal torment, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel 
to every creature, he that belie veth (What? That Adam's virtue is sin, and 
in my resurrection) and is baptized, shall be saved, but he that belie veth not, 
shall be damned, " formulated Rom. 10:9, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, 
the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the 
dead, thou shalt be saved. " 

Now then, all of the "Johnny Raws "as the Reverend Robert Taylor calls 
them, who have the power to pass through the ordeal of the evolution, of usur- 
pation, by tyranny, from seventy times seven, or four hundred and ninety 
per cent, as a standard, of forbearance between fellow subject, to the tyrannical 
Christian Religion, that demands of its victims, forgiveness in Advance of 
any sin actually committed, for the inherited tendency, to disobey oppression, 
so that with this stupendous artifice, elaborated upon its pages, the New Testa- 
ment, in order to vindicate authority and to furnish a passport for despotism, 
all are libeled sinners, from its pictorial disobedience of Adam before they 



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have sinned at all. The infant Adam, is a sinner, by the mouth of his own 
God, before he was capable of sinning. Isa. 7:16. Infants are sinners before 
they are capable of sinning at all. Since Adam committed Original Sin before 
one year old, in defiance of the Jewish God's affirmation against accountability 
before the age of three. 

Thus, Peter's rule of forbearance of seven times, and the rule of Jesus, of 
seventy times seven, between fellow subjects, and his shift, to the first offense 
as between (God and King) and their subjects, is now changed to Damnation 
unless forgiveness in Advance, is forthcoming, and all for the affront which 
Adam's tyrant God had suffered four thousand three hundred and eighty-five 
years previous to the time when one hundred and fifty inspired bishops of 
A. D. 381, furnished a Savior from Isa. 7:14, which then B. C. 742, was a mere 
word, or pictorial figure for the elapse of time, but which now, A. D. 381, is 
used as a sacrifice to complete the expiation of Adam's disobedience to a com- 
mand for perpetual ignorance, which command he disobeyed before a year old, 
and for which he served time nine hundred and twenty-nine years to absolve. 
Thus the dogma of obedience, was raised to the fore front. Commands issued 
from authority, no matter how obedience should contradict every rule of 
propriety as punishing Adam for a knowledge of good and evil the first year, 
which is positively unattainable on the affirmation of the Jewish God, veri- 
fied Isa. 7:16, but this is the woeful absurdity upon which the church has found- 
ed Original Sin and its counterpart redemption. No matter how obedience 
should contradict every rule of right, truth or justice; no matter how it 
encourages ignorance, crime and human slaughter ; this is the material on which 
is founded the Christian Religion. 

Obedience at all hazzards constitutes the piety of the Court of Emperor 
Theodosius the Great, A. D. 381, and the spirit of the dogmas, reared into 
existence, during his reign, that made the Christian Religion, and the New 
Testament, which gave rise to the maxim, '^ Obedience is the only piety, disobedi- 
ence the only sin, "verified by the formula, Rom. 5:19, which states: ''Where as 
by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of 
one (that is obedience to the death of the cross) shall many be made righteous. " 

This dogma elaborated a thousand and one different ways in the New Testa- 
ment, was scattered throughout the Roman Empire of Europe, Asia and Africa, 
from Spain to Egypt, from Bishop to Priest, from Priest to people. 

Churches with this dogma of obedience (supplanted the public schools 
which were closed until 36,000 cities and villages were captured by the Mo- 
hamedans who opened public schools at once,) were deemed by the throne as 
good, as forts and arsenals for the humiliation of the Emperor's subjects, and 
as millions of Hungarians, Goths and Vandals swarmed the empire Hell fire, 
for the disobedient, was the Aaron's rod shook before the masses. 

Churches were multiplied for the distribution, once a week, of these glad 
tidings, dispensed from the court of Emperor Theodosius, to subjugate the 
savage, Hungarian, Goth and Vandal. 

But tactics of oppression during that turbulent epoch, are utterly out of 
place in the realm of equal rights. 



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The rule to browbeat a Hunn, Goth, or Vandal is not a rule for the tutor- 
ship of a free citizen on whose shoulders his government rests. But the Chris- 
tian sects of the Untied States which are infatuated with creeds reared from 
tyranny to fit realms of the tyrant are to-day teaching the tactics for conditions 
the very opposite of those which should prevail here, and now; to the utter 
perversion of conscience and corruption of good faith, so that any intelligent 
person who further stultifies his powers or the powers of his offspring with the 
false idea that this means which the depotism of Theodosius, made possible 
and which his bishops, elaborated and dramatized in the New Testament as a 
whip to rule and drive the Goths, Hunns, and Vandals to the obedience of his 
commands. Any person who so cripples his faculties as to harbor the false- 
hood that this piece of work is of divine origin simply lacks the moral energy 
to inform himself. Despotism has methods of its own. Freedom has, or should 
have, methods of its own. But, if freedom borrows of despotism her tactics, 
she soon falls prey to its seductions of falsehood, bribery, and ignorance; and 
the word ''freedom'' is wrested of its use, significance and application. 

It is an axiomatic truth that the masses should and of right ought to be 
treated as though they were capable of perfection, and the moral law commands 
that they be so treated. It is an axiomatic truth that any creed or profession 
of faith that antagonizes the capability of the masses to achieve perfection is 
absolutely immoral. The Christian Religion makes the condition of the per- 
fection of its Proselyte depend on Adam's disobedience being a sin and on the 
unqualified surrender of assent to a Savior's murdurous and felonous crucifixion 
to complete the sacrifice and atonement for that sin who also depend upon Christ's 
bodily resurrection from the dead, which is as impossible and absurd as it is 
to absolve virtue with crime in the world of the Supreme Being. Therefore 
the Christian Religion is absolutely immoral. For, on this condition, men are 
treated as though incapable of perfection. Therefore, their treatment, whether 
by mistake or design at the hand of the church, is absolutely immoral. Thus 
sheer fatigue and imitation of others are conditions of being trapped. It is a 
coward that fears to look in the face of the common enemy of man. Christianity, 
that has been the bugbear of about five per cent of the masses for fifteen cen- 
turies, has furnished them with the delusion that the disobedience of Adam was 
the source of their degradation, and that nothing short of the complete atrophy 
or paralysis of all their faculties and intuitions by believing dogmas that are 
the absolute contradiction of eternal principles as well as the intuitive principles 
of the mind to match them, will qualify them for a future world and hobbies, 
such as mere disobedience, arbitrarily clipped of all surrounding circumstances 
are dogmatized a sin, original sin, sin unto death, formulated, ''For, since by 
man came death, by man, came also the resurrection of the dead," and the 
death mentioned was the disobedience of Adam to which the God assents by 
the declaration, "Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and 
evil." 

This being, Adam, less than twelve months old disobeyed the command 
prohibiting him the knowledge of good and evil; which the Jewish God pro- 
nounces to be unknowable before the age of three years consequently he is 



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unaccountable. That is he gained some knowledge contrary to command, to-wit 
enough to become like his maker as his maker admits. On that subject, which, 
most assuredly, if his maker was at all moral as he should have been, it could 
be in no manner a sin for this infant Adam to become like him in the acquisition 
of knowledge. Or, on the other hand, must we conclude that this God himself 
was fashioned after the order of Shakespeare's ungracious pastors that points 
the Proselyte to ''The steep and thorny road to heaven, while himself the path 
of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own reed. " Unless this is the case, what 
objection could this Jewish God have for Adam's using his powers to acquire 
knowledge and wisdom? Was it more civilized in this God's estimation or the 
writers which create and set him up for his man, Adam, to rely absolutel}^ upon 
instincts like the cattle with mere appetites and passions for motive powers, 
than to be conscious of good, of right, of justice, of virtue, of a hope of eternal 
life, each of which Adam's God positively denies to his gardener Adam, and this 
denial demonstrates that this God is not the Supreme Being at all ; but is a God 
fashioned with a contradictory character to furnish an apology for like conduct 
among rulers and their confederates; such is the God, fashioned by the imagina- 
tion of primitive savages, whose nostrils were smoked and whose eyes were 
made dim for four thousand years upon the altars of Jewish savages. 

And sacrifices of human life were offered to him in as crude a foim as did 
the American Indian or Aborigines, upon our own soil, which Jewish God is no 
other than the one adopted by the court of Emperor Theodosius, who was assist- 
ed by his bishops in the reduction of his unity to fractions or a trinity, verified, 
Matt. 1:17:23, and 28:19, by the words: ''Baptizing in the name of the Father 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." And obedience regaidless of the 
moral turpitude to which the subject is exposed, is the chief prerogative of the 
God of Adam. And since the Christian Religion throughout the New Test- 
ment, lavishes upon this God the highest encomiums for the punishment of 
Adam's unassailable virtue and execrates Adam, a dozen times in Rom. Chap. 
5, for the exercise of virtue. Hence nothing could be more conclusive than the 
fact that this one of a pluralit}^ of Gods, is the presiding imaginary object of 
adoration supplemented with the imaginary "Immanuel" which their seafaring 
skill enabled them to interpret to mean "God with us" verified. Matt. 1:23. 

And since the big fish eat up the little fish, so, in nautical language, the 
"God with us" is sacrificed to the Jewish God in unity or in other words, God 
the Son, the second person in the trinity is crucified a sacrifice in consideration 
of Adam's sin, and by proxy, the sin of the whole world against the Jewish God 
as a Whole, to whom the masses must be forever beholden; both by confession, 
which is a personal admission that Adam sinned, and belief of the resurrection, 
which admits the atonement. 

All rational men are furnished with at least twelve regulative ideas, which 
by most men are employed, below the threshold of consciousness; ^vvhile they 
are so employed, their possessors, doubt their veracity and infallibility; but 
once above, and thoroughly grasped by the mind, their voice is infallible, and 
their veracity is invincible. These ideas are named, necessary ideas, truths, 
first truths, innate ideas; "number" is one of them (with the exception of the 



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christian trinitarian, who believes that one, is sometimes three, and three, is 
sometimes one, and so to mix the Jewish God, ''God with us" and the Holy 
Ghost and God the Father, in such a manner if it were possible, in the soul of 
man to stagger) the Supreme Being, which dogma of the trinity is believed by 
the Jews and Mohammedaas to be the sin of sins, branding it as utter blasphemy; 
having been a form of idolatry, practiced by the Syrians and Egyptians. 

With this exception, the intuitive idea of number the woild over, ten, always 
stands for ten, five for five, and three for three, in any and every application 
in which for thought, the numerical relation is required. With the exception 
above enumerated, there are no sects here, the only question is, are you in- 
formed or not? Do you know, or are you ignorant? That is the only issue. 
Why is this? Why the reason is, you have an arithmetic, in which the rules 
and demonstrations are true, and a numerical truth is forced, to go through 
the mind, in such a variety of ways, that its numerical integrity, becomes estab- 
lished; so that after a while the truths of number are treated as a matter of 
course. Truth, which in the conrete, means truth of fact, fiction, law or prin- 
ciple, in the abstract, is a regulative idea, an entity and eternal principle. 

What is the trouble with this power of mind, about which so much false- 
hood lurks in the christian world, both in theory and practice to-day? Why 
is it that en or and falsehood on matters of religion, reigns the rule as matter 
of course, and truth becomes the exception. And, not only so, but the false 
stalks abroad, and truth demands by the hundreds of christian sects, that it 
be expiated; that is to say, the truth and right involved in Adam's positive and 
unassailable obedience to the command of the Moral Law must be expiated, 
is the creed of every christian sect the world over. Consequently, there are 
thousands of churches in Christendom, which are teaching from a text-book 
of barbarism, which contradicts itself as well as principle in so much that error 
in religion for the church is a truth, and every dogma of every persuasion of 
Christianity is struggling to miake permanent the idea that in religion great 
mysterj^, even to the extent of falsehood and self-contradiction, is essential, 
as piety with which to try your faith. 

The only thing that will ever lectify this blight in human thought, is that 
a text-book shall be used in every grade of school, which covers exercises in 
the Moral Law, in such a manner that the m^oral quality of a thought or act, 
shall be brought consciously and conspicuously before the mind, branding dog- 
mas and fables, offensive, unless taught as dogmas and fables. A text-book 
based on the intuitions of truth and right, in which fitness, aptness, justness so that 
the twelve regulative ideas before enumerated, shall come into gymnastic, 
mechanical drill, and must be forced by illustration and example to go through 
the mind, in such as variety of ways, that truth and right and the ideas enum- 
erated, like Number, shall universally become treated as a matter of course. 

As the race is now constituted, the value of such a text-book can not be 
estimated. When those, whose integrity of thought in truth and right rela- 
tions, shall be treated as much a matter of course as is now exhibited in the 
numerical relation, then will the truths commanded by the Moral Law, become, 
universal, and man on questions of truth and right, will have assumed his native 
prerogative. 



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According to the present curriculum of drill, the only men who treat truth 
relations, in their entire circle of thought with any comparable degree of severity 
with which numerical truth prevails, are those whose lives are devoted to science 
and whose experience compels them to know that there is nothing which the 
mind undertakes that does not in some manner involve a truth or right 
relation. Consequently, the unspeakable importance of text-books in all 
grades, which shall treat truth and right relations with variety of mental 
drill; no less exhaustive and severe than at present prevails in regard to Number. 

It is apparent that in a measure, mathematics alone, helps to truth; but 
we must have these powers developed by illustration and example with the 
ideas, truth and right, held consciously and conspicuously before the mind, 
as the foundation of this discipline. 

Every christian sect is a title of falsehood, mathematics have no sects. Why? 
Because its rules and demonstrations are true. Let the Moral Law be formu- 
lated and subjected to the mind of the pupil by apt illustration and example 
with the same mechanical drill, which now prevails concerning the numerical 
relation and you will grow a race of truth loving souls, in the place of truth 
hating christians. 

If in the place of the millions of lives, worse than wasted, which are used 
by the church as its Suborned Witnesses, to make permanent the unconscion- 
able dogmas of the Christian Religion, such as, I Cor. 15:22, '^For as in Adam 
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," together with the dogma, 
^'If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, your faith is vain, and they 
that have fallen asleep in Christ are perished. " 

Why will men persist in paying for this vanity, when the human race is 
perishing for right and eternal truth? Preaching once a week, for fifteen cen- 
turies, to establish the dogmas of Original Sin, and redemption, conditioned 
thereon, to make permanent self-confessed vanity, unless the most senseless 
hobby of a dogma of belief of the resurrection of a mere rhetorical figure of 
fiction, whose prophetic origin is demonstrated to have arisen from the mere 
word ''Immanuel" or part of speech, used in the original context to signify 
the naming period of an infant. 

This child of metaphor, has surely been the trap that has caused the intu- 
itions of the christian soul to flounder to its utter uselessness. The falsehood of 
Original Sin and redemption completely sets at naught the normal operation 
of the intuitions, truth and right, in all who believe such absurdity. Why? 
Because Original Sin, comes from the disobedience, of a metaphorical despots 
immoral command; and the disobedience to such a command, which the entire 
moral universe of the Supreme Being, demands, in opposition, to obedience to 
the intuitions of truth, justice and right; and that a knowledge of good and evil 
is essential to a rational choice, a consideration which infinitely outweighs 
any breach of obedience to an immoral command uttered by an inferior God, 
or any God, Lord, Emperor, King or Bishop, set up as a passport for despotic 
imitation and infamy. 

The dogmas of Original Sin and salvation, set at naught the intuition of 
truth, whose function is to see that an affirmation or predication accords with 



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reality, or the meaning expressed in the context when the truth of a narrative 
is sought. And since these dogmas contradict the meaning of Gen. 2:17 as 
modified by Gen. 5:5, and Isa. 7:14, the orig'nal context from which Original 
Sin and the dogma of redemption was taken; the rule of truth is mistaken and 
mis-applied by the founders of those dogmas. 

For all whose skill is insufficient in the use of the powers of truth and 
right to detect here the hand of villainy and fraud and take these dogmas foi 
better or for worse, the mnid's standards are broken down, and withered with 
stupifjdng blight. The life of self contradiction that is prevalent in Christen- 
dom is a living attestation of this woeful truth. In order that justice, aptness, 
fitness, integrity, truth, and right, may reign in the soul, such dogmas as Orig- 
inal Sin and salvation, which has been demonstrated to be absolutely nothing 
but an individual confession of a tyrant's right to punish virtue, if used against 
his vice. And an indefensible assent to human slaughter, in confirmation of 
the tyrant's undisputed execration of virtue, which dogma unlike imputed sin, 
carries the absolute presumption of a contaminating consent to crime. 

But when so understood, like any vice, its blighting effect, will vanish. 
But when not so understood, its blasting effect is inevitable. 

In respect to the Original Sin of Adam, think of a writer who employs the 
word ''God" that might by some be understood to indicate the Supreme Being, 
to threaten an infant less than a year old, with death, for eating of the meta- 
phorical tree of knowledge, then for the church of Christendom to revive the 
threat of death, abandoned for the origin of Original Sin. Of course, this God 
could have no better judgment than the writer who made him, as also, this infant 
could understand metaphor and figurative language, while in the Garden of 
Eden at most any age, under twelve months; like the chamelion, he takes his 
color, from what is most closely related to him. 

Think of a Proselyte that employs this stupenduous artifice to blight his 
powers when the Supreme Being has grown for him nine faculties and twelve 
possibly conscious necessary ideas or truths; for the express purpose of incorpor- 
ating the contents of the mental, moral and physical world into the vocabulary 
of his own acquisition. 

What makes the relation between Adam and his God significant for the 
majesty of oppression is the fact that, obedience, like the spear that obeys the 
hand that wields it, is set forth with such uncompromising emphasis, that every 
virtue is cut away, and leaves the Dogma conspicuously alone. 

The calculating mind of St. Gregory, saw at a glance that the punishmient 
of virtue for the sake of obedience, and an Old Testament God as a backer and 
authority, would add as nothing else could to the security of the oppressor. 

Four hundred and seventy years previous to the origin of the story of the 
Gallileian crucifixion, Crassus, Caesar and Pompey had nailed six thousand 
Roman Plebeians to crosses to make permanent the caprice that obedience 
to the throne, however slavishly immoral, was what constituted the piety in the 
masses. 

And to make perpetual the same dogma, one hundred and fifty bishops 
of the Roman Empire, A. D. 381 take upon themselves the ridiculous task in 



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the behest of tyranny that even virtue, is sin, Original Sin, sin unto the death 
of the soul, when used to confront the vice of an immoral command from the 
throne of authority, as an imaginary God, King or Emperor; and for their pur- 
pose they bring into use, and set up for their service and worship the fabulous, 
imaginary God of Adam, that had the indefensible prowess to punish virtue, 
when used against the immoral commands of his despotic throne. 

And in further flattery to this God's imputed, vindictive ness, and utter 
mockery of Adam's exile, the church conditions the absolution of the masses 
from Original Sin, and the promise of eternal life on the confession of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, which means an admission by the Proselyte that Adam's virtue 
is sin, and his unconditional surrender and indefensible assent to the judicial 
murder of Christ, or in other words, by yielding assent to a diabolical creed will 
cancel the virtue of each. 

Thus, the said bishops, not only ignore the rule of Peter, for seven times 
or Jesus for seventy times seven, or the punishment of the first offense from 
the hand of the tormentors, at the discretion of King or God; but the humiliated 
suppliant for eternal life, at the mercy and disposal of the church, militant and 
triumphant, or throne of one of a plurality of Gods, must Down at the altar, 
and Crawl for Pardon in Advance of Any Sin Actually Committed with 
this damnable christian formula on his lips, 'Tor as in Adam All Die, even 
so in Christ shall all be made alive. " Not only so but in the face of this God's 
audacity, in the punishment of virtue, by Adam''s exile for his obedience to the 
intuition of right; and thus complying with the commands of the Moral Law, 
notwithstanding this insult added to injury, and the desecration of the Moral 
Law, and the said bishops in further flattery of this God's prowess in the dese- 
cration of virtue, the church yields him the additional surrender and prostra- 
tion of all the moral and ethical principles of man. 

Notwithstanding the utter wreck of His God's own government, by the 
confession of Original Sin, as a descendant from Adam, whose absolution had 
been attempted by exile; but being annulled became thereby participants and 
accomplices in his disobedience, and are thereby sinners not before the bar of 
the Jewish God, or the Supreme Being, but before the bar of the church, must 
be forgiven, in Advance of any sin actually committed. And in further 
flattery to the church and this God's insolence, as well as in utter mockery of 
his final disposal of Adam, the said bishops aroused form its slumber an old 
defunct time riddle or figure of rhetoric, used by the original writer as a rhetori- 
cal flourish for the elapse of time to transpire before the separation of a land 
from its kings, as an atonement for the expiation of Original Sin. 

So that in imitation of Pompey, Caesar and Crassus in nailing six thousand 
patriots for freedom to crosses to make perpetual the caprice of tyranny, which 
event transpired B. C. 71. These one hundred and fifty bishops of the church 
or their representatives impale by means of inspired and infallible narrative, 
this imaginary ''God with us " (for so they call him, Matt. 1 :23), to an imaginary 
cross, and date the story back nearly four hundred years to B. C. 6, and forward 
from that date, covering a period of one hundred and two years, when all con- 
temporaries as well as the characters in the scenes, such as John the Baptist, 



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Paul, or Jesus Christ, if contemplated as living at the time of the writing, would 
each be at least four hundred years of age, since the evidence is sufficient that 
the drama was T\Titten at the close of the fourth and beginning of fifth centuries, 
but when such a dastardly piece of work runs up against a genuine product of 
nature's forces, with the weapon of the Moral Law at his command; such vagaries 
crumble into dust. 

The formula Rom. 10:9, ''That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the 
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the 
dead, thou shalt be saved; "when stripped of its long cloak, is the most gross 
piece of despotism ever uttered by man. 

And since by confessing Christ, you deliberately acknowledge that Adam's 
act of virtue, was a sin, that you yourself are by such indefensible acknowl- 
edgment a sinner through Adam's act of virtue; and give your unqualified assent 
to human slaughter in expiating your fractional part of Adam's sin, and with this 
vilifying lie on your lips in behest of tyranny, you renounce virtue by yielding 
assent to the crucifixion of Christ. 

In Psalms 69:31:22, are the words: ''This also shall please the Lord, bet- 
ter than an ox or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs; and that which should 
have been for their welfare, let it become a trap" Most surely for fifteen 
centuries has this scheme been a trap in which the souls of millions have withered. 

After the senseless slaughter of animals for thousands of years, in obedience 
to inferior Gods, or fetich men who set them up, to yield authority, are the 
words Heb. 10:4: "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats 
should take away sins." Nevertheless, the christian believers think, that the 
sin offering which the church originated and interpreted to mean "God with us" 
was an actual living human being, verified, Matt. 1 :23. 

Matt. 26:50:53:54: "And they laid hands on Jesus and took him," but 
he rejected the twelve legions of angels saying, "How then shall the scriptures 
be fulfilled, that thus it must be." Thus the sin offering from King Ahaz's 
time riddle, is used as an object of atonement by the said bishops, which they 
curcified, to redeem mankind from Original Sin, which never existed at all, 
but was an attempt by the church to transmute the virtues of the masses into a 
sin, which no man was ever in any possible manner guilty of. 

But guilt does attach for surrendering indefensible assent to human sacri- 
fice to expiate virtue; since such is in positive contravention of the Moral Law. 
Thus the anonymous bishops who write the books Matt, and Luke, with the 
aid of the votes of a hundred and fifty bishops, and with the aid of St. Jerome's 
Latin Vulgate, who both interpret and fulfill the time riddle of King Ahaz, 
called then Isa. 7:14, B. C. 742, "Immanuel." But A. D. 381, Matt. 1:23, 
dated 5 B. C, is called "Emmanuel," "which being interpreted" by whom? 
The infallible bishops of the church "is God with us." And the anonymous 
bishop who writes the Book of Revelation, fulfills the promise of a Savior, out 
of the ordinary course, for the relief of the oppression of the Egyptians by use 
of a prophecy from the same book, viz., Isa. 19:20, B. C. 714, crucified Rev. 
11:9, A. D. 96. One prophecy was as valid as the other; both being inspired 
by the same prophet. But both Jews and Egyptians treat such fulfillment of 



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Old Testament scriptures at the hand of Theodosius' bishops, as is displayed 
in the New Testament with utter horror and holy contempt; and such perverted 
narrative and contradiction as wholly unfit for their children to read. 

But the indiscriminating, unscrupulous, zealous, crusader replies, *'We 
need to send them missionaries. " The fact that they consider the New Testa- 
ment fictions unworthy of their canonical books, only shows their trifling and 
unstable faith. They selfishly think that their God's judgment sentence and 
execution upon Adam, should be sustained, not mocked, supplanted, annulled, 
and overthrown, by the imaginary sophistry, and falsification that an infallible 
church foisted upon Gen. 2:17, to get Original Sin, and foisted upon Isa. 7:14 
to get an object for redemption. They selfishly think that Adam should have 
borne his disobedience alone, which an infallible church has made infinitely 
divisible, distributable and fractional, in order that each may bear his alliquot 
share. 

St. Gregory, President of the Council, A. D. 381, was the father of christian 
justice; was the mathematician for the church in the distribution of Adam's 
sin, equally and fractionally so that all men, which the church predestinates, 
could be saved, equally and fractionally, verified Rom. 5:19: ^'Wherefore as 
by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one 
shall many be made righteous," and made general, I Cor. 15:22, ''For as in Adam 
all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " The anonymous writer of the 
Pentateuch that fashioned Adam's God, has depicted him dogmatic in the vin- 
dication of his commands, even at the expense of self-reproach and self-con- 
tradiction. He inflicts punishment for disobedience when under the Moral 
Law obedience would be indefensible, that is, he punishes virtue in Adam to 
vindicate the prowess and authority of command, being absolutely insensible 
in desecrating the Moral Law, and protects vice in Cain for the same reason. 

The Moral Law is a total stranger to him and his realm. He prohibits the 
knowledge of good and evil to his man Adam, seemingly, for the purpose of 
issuing commands and enjoying the satisfaction of insensible obedience, and 
goes so far as to inflict punishment upon Adam after admitting his utter unac- 
countability. 

His threat of seven-fold vengeance upon the one who should take the life 
of Cain helped Lamech to claim seventy and seven fold vengeance, for protec- 
tion, in so much that after the murder of a young man, the said Lamech put 
in a claim for his God's protection; the said Lamech who in turn became the 
father of Noah, the only human being on earth that Adam's God would save, 
except his sons and their wives. Why? Because they disobeyed his command 
to Adam in rejecting the knowledge of good and evil, but according to the legend, 
the masses whom he drowned were obeying his orders to Adam; and positively 
refused and rejected knowledge of good and evil, that is to say, they reveled in 
good and evil indiscriminately in absolute obedience to the Jewish God's com- 
mand to Adam; and for that he drowns them. 

Thus, he vindicates the fact by his protection of crime and the disobedience 
of Noah and his destruction of those obeying his orders; that his vengence is 
like a weathervane, subject to every wind that blows. 



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But, to repair his forgetfulness, he placed a rainbow in the sky, as a reminder 
to himself, that he would never drown the world again, no matter what hap- 
pened. His conscience must have smote him a little for drowning men, women, 
and children formed in his own image and likeness when they were absolutely 
obeying his orders, the disobedience of which cost Adam nine hundred and 
twenty-nine years of hard labor. 

Afterward, however, if ten men had been found in all Sodom and Gomorrah, 
who were disobeying his orders to Adam, for indiscriminate revelry in good 
and evil, these cities had been saved on the word of two angels, who were the 
phone Messengers of this God. 

But, as Lot, the nephew of Abraham, his wife and two daughters, being 
only four, they were led away, and permitted to stop at Zoah, a neighboring 
town. But Lot's wife, who wished to know for certain whether or not her 
married children were scorching to death, turned her compassionate eyes con- 
trary to command in the direction of her affections, and was petrified in her 
tracks to a standing image of salt. 

And Lot and his surviving daughters, that the human race should not 
become extinct, are turned over to the crime of incest; so one crime is made 
to correct another on account of the scarcity of material at this God's disposal. 
Thus, primitive fancy has painted up its notions of this God, and his govern- 
mental relations, first, unreasoned obedience; second, punishment, for knowl- 
edge and virtue before the admitted age of accountability; third, protection 
of murderers; fourth, punishment by flood, for lack of knowledge already pro- 
hibited by threat of immediate death; fifth, punishment by fire and brimstone 
for lack of knowledge already prohibited; sixth, Lot's wife petrified to salt, 
for an act of reason and compassion against the arbitrary command of an angel. 

This is by no means an exhaustive account of this God's methods of chastise- 
ment inflicted upon the people, made in his own image and likeness, who was 
accustomed to walk about in the garden in the cool of the day, to see what had 
been accomplished the day before by his progeny. Is it elevating or civilizing 
to believe in the infallible inspiration of such a writer, and the God that his 
visionary imagination has been delivered of. 

This is the precise God that the bishops of Theodosius adopted for the 
Christian Religion, to whose eternal flattery, is extolled the punishment of 
virtue and to whose positive overthrow and impeachment, in the management 
of Adam's case, this ''God with us" was sacrificed. 

And this God as a trinity, was appointed by his infallible bishops to pre- 
side over their recorded word in the New Testament, in which his government 
and administration with Adam, and his use meaning and application of the 
words ''Immanuel" and ''Virgin" of Isa. 7:14, are treated by the church with 
utter perversion and contempt. 

If you pose as an applicant to any evangelical church, you are not ques- 
tioned, upon the desire of a life, in harmony with the eternal principles of the 
universe, with the intuitive principles of the soul, to be evoked and disciplined 
for the use and application of truth, evident, self-evident, or axiomatic together 
with a practical knowledge of proper fiction, which must conform at least with 



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the possible ; with truth of fact which must conform to the actual, with truth of 
law, which must conform to the inevitable. You are not questioned on the 
expediency of squaring your thought and life, with these eternal verities, but 
your entire questioning proceeds on the very opposite basis, that is, do you 
believe dogmas and absurdities that contradict every intuitive truth and every 
eternal verity? If you yield your assent you are admitted, if you have a heavy 
income, an understanding, or a compromise, will exhaust the most radical 
differences with the clergy on pain of secrecy. 

What you lack in character, or example, you can make up with contribu- 
tion and assistance to spread the blessed Gospel. How do dogmatic indefensi- 
- ble absurdities affect the intuitions of the mind? They contradict their voice 
and veracity, which renders man morally and rationally powerless. Men that 
look for the saving efficacy of the Christian Religion from the basis of mere 
imitation of others, since it has no other, and impose upon themselves preten- 
tions for a creed and belief that contradict both truth and the desire for truth, 
are not only not saved, but are as lost to the use of their powers as though the 
human soul had never achieved their possibility. 

The dogma of vicarious atonement contradicts the maxim that " what a man 
sows, that shall he reap," or that moral rights are inalienable. When the 
mind's standards are broken down, order and confusion are not kept distinct; 
it is like prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil, or compelling good and 
evil to be reveled in indiscriminately. The absurd becomes the true, the true 
the absurd. Virtue becomes vice, and vice in turn, becomes virtue. History 
becomes fable, fable becomes history. 

History is the narration of facts or events that once existed or transpired, 
like the independence of the United States. Fiction is the recital of incidents 
that a writer creates, uses or calls to his aid for his purpose; like the narratives 
of the New Testament. If an author writes in the interest of oppression and 
tyranny, he will mix history and myth, virtue and vice, good and evil, right 
and wrong, as much as possible; so that in any strategy that the tyrant sees fit 
to engage in, he may command obedience, free from any moral entanglements, 
and such shall be the only piety and disobedience the only sin; and this Jewish 
God's punishment of Adam for virtue, was written to furnish a license, and a 
passport, for just such immorality to despotic rule. 

In Biblical lore, the more the story contradicts nature's laws, if obedience 
is the lesson, the greater the fear engendered for its prom^otion. The surrepti- 
tious stamp of inspiration and infallibility presses all other contradictions 
below the threshold of consciousness. 

As fiction Adam's sentence for life at hard labor to expiate and absolve 
the offense to his God, and the crucifixion of a Savior four thousand three hun- 
dred and eighty-six years later, as an atonement, for the same act of disobedi- 
ence and the rule of oppression of the masses is satisfied; and the absolution of 
virtue has been twice attempted and failed, which turns the entire scheme over 
to ridicule before the bar of the Moral Law. But in the light of intelligence and 
moral perfection, as fiction in the fable, Adam's obedience to the eternal prin- 
ciple of right, his obedience to his own intuitive principle of right, his obedience 



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to the Moral Law and consciousness of duty, utterly telescopes the feeble com- 
mand contradicting these principles, from any source, and consecrates Adam's 
exile a martyr to the most exalted virtue, and, as a mere figure of fiction, the 
lesson or the moral principle, he stands for, contrary to the intention of the 
author, ranks him with the heroes of Antioch, who perished for virtue; the six 
thousand of Italy whose bodies were nailed to crosses in the cause of Freedom, 
and the Colonies of America in 1776. If Adam's resistance of oppression, in 
addition to his complete absolution under the Jewish God, necessitated a Savior 
four thousand three hundred and eighty-six years later, in the interest of oppres- 
sion, to forgive the acts of the Resisting Oppressed, it would only show the utter 
weakness of tyranny against Virtue when only the fabulous Adam wields the 
weapon. All martyrs for freedom would need a Savior's absolving grace. 

Emperor Theodosius the Great, with an army of forty thousand barbarian 
goths whipped, murdered and massacred the Roman citizens of Antioch for resist- 
ing double tax imposed upon them and fifteen thousand were massacred at Thessa- 
lonica. One hundred and fifty thousand were killed or butchered, in Italy, 
during the reign of the Triumvirate, who struck for liberty, and six thousand 
of them impaled upon crosses, were reared aloft as felons against despotism. 

But since the United States has achieved its liberty to persist here in 
the use of the tactics of the tyrant is a contradiction of the very spirit of free- 
dom. Here every man and woman, is thrown upon their own individual re- 
sources to judge of the soundness, of his or her thought material. Falsehood 
should be rejected at sight, and would be, if the entity Truth were an intellec- 
tual and moral achievement as is the entity Number. 

A Savior to atone for obedience to the eternal principle of right, contra- 
dicts itself, and passes to the realm of the immoral and absurd. Why? Because 
it is an unqualified assent to homicide, a felony to repair an act of virtue, which 
is a substitute of what otherwise, would be virtue, with vice. The act of poetic 
Adam, the men of Antioch, the Six Thousand on crosses, which fenced the Appian 
way, the American Colonies ; all of whom dispute the right of tyranny, and will 
stand for that act as lights to the world: When the Christian Religion, its 
trinity of Gods, tyrants, despots and oppressors are forever drowned in oblivion. 

Whatever contradicts a native intuition, subconscious or evoked into use 
by rational man, contradicts a law of the Supreme Being, just as much, as 
to contradict a physical law of the body, or objective nature. 

The bishops who founded the Christian Religion, and formulated I Cor. 
15:22, uniting the mythical disobedience of Adam, with the mythical obedience 
of Jesus Christ (to the ' 'death of the cross, " Phil. 2:8) formulated I Cor. 15:22, 
''For as in Adam all die, (Gen. 2:17 and 3:6, sustained Rom. 5:12, without reck- 
oning with I Tim. 2:14, or Gen. 3:22:23 and 5:5, to the contrary) the words of 
Gen. 2:17 and 3:6:16 to 24: inclusive, can in no possible manner apply to the 
race of man, for the command disobedience and punishment, is strictly con- 
fined to Adam and Eve. But the christian sects of over four thousand years 
later, attempt according to Rom. 5:12, to make the offense applicable to all 
mankind, by the following formula, "Wherefore as by one man sin entered into 
the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all have 



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sinned." So likewise the words of Isa. 7:14, can in no possible manner apply- 
to the object of the redemption of the race. For they are strictly confined in 
the context to the comfort of King Ahaz, as against the depredations of Kings, 
Rezin and Pekah. But in Matt. 1 :23, this prophecy of Isaiah, is perverted and 
pushed from its meaning and application to the kings referred to, as depicted 
in Isa. 7:14:15:16, and II Kings, 15:30 and 16:9, and is tortured into guise, as 
the prophetic origin of the Savior of the world. 

Thus, these dogmas of Original Sin and redemption reared by the church, 
are the products of disguise and perversions tortured into the formula I Cor. 
15:22: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 
And the formulas depending for their validity upon Gen. 2:17 and 3:6, as the 
foundation of Original Sin, and Isa. 7:14, as the foundation of the object of 
redemption for that sin; which dogmas are no more valid than their scriptural 
causes; both of which have been wrested of their entire meaning in the original 
context. Since in the place of Threatened Death on the day of disobedience 
Adam's God is reported to have commuted his sentence to Exile from Eden, 
for absolution. Living according to the narrative nine hundred and twenty- 
nine years thereafter, which can in no possible manner mean the death threat- 
ened unless you can twist languages so that (929 years of life), and (death 
ON THE DAY OF DISOBEDIENCE) are identical, an absurdity than which there is 
no greater, but such is the absurdit}^ upon which is founded the sublime dogma 
of Original Sin, which is nothing short of perverted and falsifying Words as- 
cribed by christians to their own God, Then for the church to minimize their 
own God's method of Adam's absolution in exile, by rearing a crucified sacrifice 
of the second person in the trinity to absolve precisely the same offense to their 
own God, is a mockery and a jest upon his decrees than which there could be no 
greater. 

Consequently, what consolation can there be for the christian who is look- 
ing to this God for his heaven, which his creed has so insulted. 

The Supreme Being in any manner allowed in the fable of the creation of 
Adam and Eve is an utter profanation of the name. Since the formula, ''For 
since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead" binds 
Adam's sin and Christ's atonement together in the relation of cause and effect, 
and, since it is axiomatic that the truth of the effect can be no more valid than 
the truth of the cause, it follows that the fate of the Savior must follow the fate 
of Adam's sin. A doctrine for salvation is worth just as much as the Original 
Sin upon which it is founded, and no more. Since Adam's act was a virtue, and 
to absolve virtue, necessitates a position in the opposite ranks and an unquali- 
fied assent to judicial murder is the very sin capable of absolution or canceling 
virtue. Hence the Supreme Being has no use for a Jesus or a Savior. That 
being the case, he did not exist to live, die, or rise again, or have the honor of a 
seat at His right hand. Nevertheless, for the material to start a Savior, the one 
hundred and fifty bishops dig up a sign given to comfort King Ahaz B. C. 742, 
whose dethronement was threatened by the kings of Syria and Israel. "So 
the Lord, (by the mouth of Isaiah), spake again unto Ahaz saying ''Ask the 
a sign of the Lord thy God. Ask it either in the depth or in the height above. 



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But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. Therefore the 
Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear 
a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. For before the child shall know to 
choose the good and refuse the evil, the land that thou abhorrest shall be for- 
saken of both her kings." Since the sign was given B. C. 742 and the death 
of Rezin, king of Syria II Kings 16:9 occurred B. C. 740 and the death of Pekah, 
King of Israel, II Kings 15:30 occurred B. C. 739, — the land of Syria and Israel 
which King Ahaz abhorred or feared, and being bereft of both kings B. C. 739, — 
the sign was cancelled, and the purpose of it was at an end. Also B. C. 742 
are the words Isaiah 8:2:3 ''And I took me faithful witnesses to record Uriah, 
the priest, and Zachariah, the son of Jeberechiah, and I went in unto the pro- 
phetess, and she conceived and bore a son; and the metaphorical child, barring 
accidents, when the last King was slain, would be three years of age. 

The Supreme Being can have no one at his right hand that pretends by 
inadvertence or design to absolve virtue. It is self-evident that virtue cannot 
be absolved by proxy, deputy or vicarious atonement. If Adam or any one 
else should obey a command prohibiting the knowledge of choosing the good 
and refusing the evil, such obedience would invite the crawling footsteps of 
oppression, would invite the universal reign of ignorance, and its twin sister, 
superstition, would invite the universal reign of immorality, would invite a 
total disregard of the intuition or voice of truth and right relations, the knowl- 
edge of which is fundamental to the souPs power of action; would invite a con- 
tradiction, to the universal reign of reason, equal rights and freedom; would 
invite a contradiction to the consciousness of absolute duty. 

Then can any man in his right senses, or use of his faculties and intuitions, 
consider for a moment disobedience to a command enjoining ignorance of good 
and evil a sin? Not unless he is wedded to the power of oppression beyond the 
possibility of divorce. The crude notions that should prevail, in the minds 
of the best savages, could scarcely be expected, to fashion their Gods, other 
than after the order of the despotism of their chief; and such a being is made to 
stand for the character that the word ''God, " stands for in Genesis. 

Who, but a savage chief, would forbid the knowledge of good and evil to 
his subjects, and then gloat over the destruction, that such a command should 
necessitate. For as mere fable, a tribe that should reject the knowledge of good 
and evil, would be, for the exigencies of life less potently equipped than with its 
instincts is the mere animal. 

The use of the word "God" in connection with such an act of barbarous 
tyranny, is nothing short of self-stultification, and downright profanation of 
the nam.e and entity. Supreme Being, for whom by some, the name God is mis- 
taken, since the nam^e God, m^ay stand for anything used as an object of worship. 
But the christian attempts to plead in mJtigation of his self-stultified powers, 
that his Bible is inspired; and its words are infallible, absolutely regardless of 
their meaning, and can only be understood by those guided by a like spirit, 
which he calls Holy, misnamxed, for Ignorant. Yet some subjects of tyranny 
delight in apathetic moral serfdom, but the Moral Law demands, that all men 
should be treated, as though, capable of perfection; and this includes one's 



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self, and for that reason, men should endeavor, to convince themselves as well 
as their fellows by Reason, that tyranny is sin, freedom is viitue, and obedience 
to a command regarding the rights of others, is a virtue. And that obedience 
to a command encouraging or enjoining ignorance, infringes the rights of others, 
by inviting oppression, and is a vice. 

The writer of the story of Adam, who took a tribe of savages and its chief, 
for his m^odel, could have absolutely no conception whatever of the soul's 
intuitions, cause, truth, right, justice, the Moral Law, or principle of duty. 
The Moral world, like America, was then an undiscovered country, and most 
certainly, they could not conform, to the conditions of a realm, to which they 
were total strangers. 

But to attempt at this age, to make, the stultifying nonsense of savages, a 
religious code and creed for intelligence, is nothing short of self-abnegation and 
self-annihiliation. 

Even the God of Adam, is nothing less than an imaginative picture of an 
unscrupulous despot. Gods, like men, are no more moral than the conduct 
ascribed to them by their makers. Words, ''omnipotent, omnipresent, omni- 
scient," add nothing to the nature of a God, depicted by narrative, as an un- 
scrupulous tyrant, that had mercy on whom he would, and whom he would 
he hardeneth. If a writer calls a character a clown, when the character is 
graphically made, in the image and likeness, of the Moral Law, the word '' Clown " 
would be simply an eptithet or sarcasm, which in reality, would stand for a 
man of principle and integrity; so, likewise, if a writer calls a character God, 
but when the character is made, in the image and likeness of everything that 
is despotic, oppressive and tyrannical, as are all of the imaginary Gods of both 
Old and New Testaments, then such a word for thought stands only as an 
epithet of jest or sarcasm. And the Supreme Being, unknown, and thus free 
from contamination, is the only Deific Entity, for serious reflection. In alle- 
giance to the Jewish God, an act of disobedience, no matter what should be the 
nature of the command from His Highness' throne, was enough of itself to 
entail perpetual enmity between the throne and the subject or between the 
Jewish God and man, since obedience as well as disobedience, was often a 
target for his caprice; and since Adam had been sentenced to hard labor for life 
by the Jewish God, judge of the Jewish world, for such disobedience, clipped 
from all prospect of eternal life for his body; and by a fiction of doctrine, to 
the effect that all men were implicitly comprised in the body of Adam, by the 
infallible logic of the church, all are accomplices in his guilt. And, for an 
atonement, the same Savior that six hundred bishops at Rimini and Selucia, 
twenty-two years previous, had voted down and out, as being in downright 
contradiction of Isa. 43:11, which states: ''Besides me there is no Savior." 
And as far as such Savior's use as an offering, to absolve Adam's sin, whose 
expulsion from Eden, should answer the purpose, unless the judgment of the 
Jewish God is no longer of effect. 

If you admit the sophistry of the premises, the taint of your soul with a 
decimal fraction of Adam's virtue, which in the Jewish God's kingdom is a 
vice, and which by construction of his church is sin, and, if you admit the atone- 



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merit which is a surrender of your actual and unqualified assent to the crime 
of crucifixion, or pose as a sharer, by acceptance and acknowledgment of a 
pretended benefit, which by construction is church redemption from Adam's 
sin. If you admit such an atonement, the occasion of which was cancelled, 
first, by Adam's Exile; second, was cancelled by the deaths of Rezin and Pekah, 
B. C. 739; third, was cancelled as a figment of fiction at the council of Rimini, by 
six hundred bishops, A. D. 359, but was resuscitated by one hundred and fifty 
bishops, A. D. 381, at the council convoked by Emperor Theodosius, The Great, 
at Constantinople. 

If you admit all this fiction and sophistry, it should be no great hardship 
to face your destiny, expressed by the christian words, I Cor. 15:17:18, ''And 
if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins, then they also 
which are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished." Any man that will let this 
figment of falsehood get such a hold on him, that he assents to it, as one of the 
ordinances of the Supreme Being, to protect, perpetuate and preserve his eqil- 
ibrium of the moral forces of the world, surely fails outright to see what is meant 
by the formula, I Cor. 15:21, ''For since by Man came death, by Man came also 
the resurrection of the dead. " It must be borne in mind that this world of the 
church is run exclusively by a very reckless kind of Man, when he states, "If 
Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, yom* faith is vain; then they 
that have fallen asleep in Christ are perished. " 

Gentlemen and ladies, is this the work of the Supreme Being, or is it the 
work of tyrannous fiends, making malicious sport of his children. The primi- 
tive church the tool of the despot has reared this God that had the hardihood 
to punish virtue: "Into an Olympus looking down on mortals, and worshipped 
by their awe. " It has lured its Proselyte into an implied acknowledgment, by 
confessing Christ, that he or she assents to his crucifixion and ratifies the charge 
libeled against his name of Oiiginal Sin; and desires mercy and forgiveness for it. 

Do you see yourself a crawling, abased, humiliated serf, at the feet of 
oppression? Such pranks upon mankind in realms of despotism, might pass, 
as an apology for oppression, for which they originated, or in realms of freedom, 
when Inertia and apath}^, allows the servile bent, or drift to take its course. 
But when a church raises this "Olympus" in states where freedom is supposed 
to reign, and men and women of their own accord, from shear fatigue, force 
of habit, or in imitation of others, by inadvertance, or design will still invite 
the crawling footsteps of despotism, it is nothing less, than a habitual propensity 
of serfdom cropping out. 

The Supreme Being "forsooth must smile (on occasion of such human 
sublimity in the art of Retrogression) unless things mortal trouble him not at 
all. " Those minds whose powers are dim in apathy, who persecute their 
friends and liberators, and accuse the investigator as an apology and license 
for ignorance of taking a verse here and there to defeat the word of their God. 
If such will study the fifteenth chapter of I Cor. and the fifth of Rom. or the 
fifty-third chapter of Isa., the 22d Psalm, and the second chapter of Genesis, 
and fails to see the tyrant that withered his every power, then his faculties are 
so bedimmed that he is powerless to detect his fetters. 



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Any man that admits himself a crawling, immoral serf, by bandying 
away his soul's power by the admission of inherited sin, derived from Adam's 
disobedience, and as a subject of predestination, shares an aliquot part of the 
advantage held out to him from sacrifices, such is nothing short of a barter of 
imputed sin, away at the expense of an indefensible assent to crime. 

The anonymous bishops, who, by the mouth of Jesus made seventy times 
seven the rule of forbearance between fellow subjects, but declared in his par- 
able that his King turned a subject over to the tormentor for the first offense, 
coupled with the declaration, ^'So shall my father in Heaven do to those who 
forgive not his brother his trespasses." But the bishop who used the pen of 
Paul goes this first offense one better, and, by a figment of superstition, has 
spread imputed sin over the entire people of the earth, derived from Adam's 
disobedience, for which the Christian applicant must be pardoned in Advance 
of any sin actually committed. The Christian Religion which the anonymous 
bishops have couched in the formulas Rom. 5:12, '' Wherefore, as by one man, 
sin entered into the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, 
for that ALL have sinned. " And couched in I Cor. 15:22, ''For, as in Adam all 
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Also Rom. 5:19, ''For, as by 
one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one 
shall many be made righteous." Now then it is manifest that the Christian 
Religion teaches that Adam's act of disobedience is transmitted from subject 
to subject among the masses. But not one word is uttered in the New Testa- 
ment about transmitted despotism from king to heir apparent or a Savior to 
forgive or atone for the vice of tyranny, oppression or despotism in the interest 
of and from the ranks of the masses, or to deliver the precept of forbearance 
between king and subject to be seven times or seventy times seven in behalf 
of the subject or masses. But, for the tyrant's first offense, turn Him over to the 
tormentors, the rule of Jesus for his (King or God) in dealing with the masses, 
or to compel the tyrant to be absolved in Advance for the disposition or tend- 
ency to caprice, which he has inherited from Adam's God by the rule of anony- 
mous bishops by the mouth of Paul. 

The masses have had no Bible maker to take up their side of the case, and 
when a Socrates has attempted to point out to them, the origin of their fetters, 
they do him the kindness, to dispose of his services; and himself as well, and 
themselves, the injury of giving a premium to be tyrannized over, an invitation 
which will always rear a hand for acceptance. 

In the same Book of Isaiah, in which the church found sufficient soil to 
generate its Savior, if they had looked a little further along, to the 19th chapter 
and 20th verse, in which is found the words: "For they shall cry unto the 
Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a Savior, and a great 
one, and he shall deliver them. " 

But they never suffered him to live, and the only hint that the bishops 
furnished of such a Savior appears 96 A. D. Rev. 11:8, from a scrap "and Egypt 
where also our Lord was crucified." One hundred and fifty thousand such 
Saviors against oppression tried to save the Roman Empire, B. C. 73, but at the 
hand of the Triumvirate B. C. 71, six thousand of them were impaled to crosses 
to make permanent the wiles of despotism. 



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Any statement, doctrine or creed, that contradicts self-evident, moral 
truth, is a falsehood. On the other hand any statement, that agrees with self- 
evident, moral truth, is valid, and this rule, the mind should continually use to 
avoid the shoals of sophistry. 

For example, the Christian Religion requires Rom. 10:9, ''That if thou 
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that 
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." And Rom. 11:32, 
''For God hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon 
all. " As a mother should forbid her child, the knowledge of good and evil, 
that he revel indiscriminately in both good and evil, that the mother should 
have an opportunity of exercising her beatitudes upon its wayward behavior. 
That is, the mother chooses to exercise her patience, forbearance and mercy 
at the child's expense. 

Again Gal. 3:22, "-the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the 
promise by faith Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. '' Hath 
concluded all under sin which means the absolute wreck and overthrow of the 
entire moral universe of the Supreme Being, that the dogmas of Adam's virtue 
shall be confessed a sin in flattery of an inferior unscrupulous God and this 
faith of Jesus Christ as assent to his murder to the utter wreck and subversion 
of the Jewish Gods punishment of Adam's sin as well as a jest upon the moral law of 
the Supreme Being, which faith shall stand in for an atonement, redemption, sacri- 
fice and pardon of Adam's virtue. That is all are under sin to enable the church 
to establish an immoral dogma, of individual assent to crucifixion, all of which 
means for the believer that if you deliberately acknowledge that Adam's act 
of disobedience is a sin when the moral law of the Supreme Being tells you it 
is an act of absolute virtue, when your intuition of right, sense of obligation 
and judgment of approbation tells you it is an act of absolute virtue. But, to 
be a recipient of the promise by faith of Jesus Christ given to them that believe, 
you thus soliloquize, I will deliberately confess Adam's act a sin, which I am 
positive is a virtue, and, being a virtue in Adam, my absolute innocence is 
vindicated of original sin. But, in spite of the nonsense, self contradiction, and 
absurdity of the whole matter, I will confess Adam's act a sin, because the 
church wants me for one of its suborned witnesses so that I get the advantage 
of using my assent to Christ's pictorial crucifixion to cancel Adam's sin which 
I inherited, thus I assent to murder to cancel disobedience, in other words, im- 
moral obedience is by the church enjoined at the expense of murder which is 
not only immoral but is positively wicked. Why? Because it is an attempt 
to absolve virtue with sin and then call the creed yielding such moral turpi- 
tude religion, all of which is setting at naught the moral law, the intuition of 
right, the universal law of right upon which the integrity of the universe is 
based. That is, if I acknowledge in contradiction of the foregoing eternal 
principles that Adam's disobedience is a sin, and accept the construction put 
upon that sin by the church, that it is equally divisible and fractional in all men, 
consequently, I, myself, am an active participant and accomplice in that sin, 
and seek pardon and forgiveness for it. Then the advantages are mine under 
the formula. Gal. 3:22, which says, "The scripture hath concluded all under 



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sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that be- 
lieve. " Believe what? That Adam's sin is my sin. Is my sin when I pos- 
itively know that Adam's act, pronounced by the church a sin, is a virtue. 
When I positively know that, in support of any religion, to dogmatize virtue 
sin and sin virtue is to subvert true order of the universe, is to make the ruling 
order, of the world a scheme of vice and whenever virtue intrudes itself into 
that order it must crawl for pardon, couched in the doubly false soul destroy- 
ing formual, ''For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 
This is the Christian Religion, that its Proselytes are so anxious to distribute 
and peddle, into foreign lands; even at the point of the bayonet, like the five 
crushng defeats, covering a period of thirty-two years suffered by the Anglo 
Saxons, the last of which was a slaughter of seventy-one thousand to establish 
the Christian Religion. 

But the words of the bishops by the mouth of their God the Son, state, 
Matt. 23:15:24, "Ye compass sea and land, to make one Proselyte, and when 
he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of Hell than yourselves. Ye 
blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Ye serpents. Ye gen- 
eration of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell? Wherefore behold 
I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall 
kill, and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogue, and 
persecute them from city to city. 

As a skirmish, this is the pretentional talk to Scribes and Pharisees, to 
furnish a passport or license for Roman persecution of the Jews, whose God 
is the same in unity, but not in trinity and the words are put into the mouth of 
Jesus, ''Then if any man say unto you, Lo, here is Christ or there, believe it not; 
for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs 
and wonders, in-so-much that, if it were possible, they shall Deceive the very 
Elect, " verified Matt. 24:23:24; "Wherefore if they shall say unto you, behold 
he is in the secret chambers, believe it not; for as the lightening cometh out 
of the east, and shineth unto the west, so shall also the coming of the son of 
man be, for wheresoever the carcases is, there will the eagles be gathered to- 
gether; but as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man 
be. " Exactly so, one is equally fabulous with the other. 

And it should be no marvel that a Proselyte under this God, should be 
equal at least, if not "two-fold more the child of Hell, "than the missionary 
that helped him into this God's service and caprice; in other words, if you give 
up reality, you can have sophistry. 

And any book that exhibits the uncompromising virtue of Adam a sin, 
as does the New Testament from first to last, which is devoid of a possibility 
of being true, either as an event of history, from the realm of fact, or as a prin- 
ciple of ethics, from the realm of fiction, should be shunned as being both im- 
moral and false. It is a self-evident truth that commands obeyed, which further 
the oppression of the masses and intensify the caprice of the tyrant, contradict 
the mind's intuition of right: The command prohibiting Adam the knowledge 
of good and evil, does this: therefore if obeyed, contradicts the mind's intuition 
of right; hence it follows that Adam's disobedience exercised in obedience to 
the command of the Moral Law, is his bounden duty and a virtue. 



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There is not the slightest doubt that the anonymous bishops, originated 
the dogmas of Original Sin and ledemption, as are portrayed in the New Testa- 
ment; and made the Christian Religion as well, and since Original Sin and the 
scheme of redemption, up to A. D. 381, were unknown; confirmed by the unassaii- 
able evidence that Emperor Valens admitted a million Visi-Goths over the 
Danube into the Empire, on condition of surrender of arms and take baptism, 
which was accepted, A. D. 378, the evidence is good that the dogmas in ques- 
tion at an earlier period were unknown. 

If the masses and their children, were truthfully taught that the God of 
Adam, is merely an imaginary figment of fiction, that possessed the mind of 
some unknown ancient novelist, who was in the employ of, or wished to sell 
his invention to some tyrant, for the license and passport furnished as a pre- 
cedent for craft and caprice, among Gods and rulers, the Bible would be harm- 
less; but when such immoral fictions as it contains, are given authority as the 
inspired voice of the Supreme Being, the injury done, is inestimable. 

A God whose Angelic agent denies the use of reason by chasing a Sarah 
into a lie of denial for a smile at absurdity, and said nothing to her husband 
for doing the same thing, petrified Lot's wife in her tracks to a pillar of salt for 
a glance at the furnace that was roasting her married sons and daughters, and 
did nothing to her Uncle Abraham, who did the same thing. Thus a writer 
that makes a rhetorical picture of a God with the forgoing despotic character- 
istics in order to crush the aspirations of all except those who wield the weapons 
of despotism and who harvest and feast upon the results of such nonsense. Yet 
such an object of worship; is no less fetish and idolatrous than the worship of 
the inferior by the superior in any case, and the effect upon mankind is more 
degrading than the worship of an Augustus Caesar or a Marcus Aurelius, for 
these were men of character, while the God of Adam, as depicted by the writer, 
is portrayed with all the low and base propensities of a tyrant and these are 
extolled by the narrative as the virtues of a God, in both Old and New Testa- 
ments which Christendom retains as a text-book and in this manner the vices 
of capricion are given authority and currency, all of which invites the crawling 
footsteps of oppression from the tyrant and of ignorance, error, and superstition 
for the masses. This God forbids knowledge, of good and evil, denies to man 
eternal life, punishes virtue in Adam, protects vice in Cain, destroys m mkind 
for obedience to his own immoral command by water and fire, which is the indis- 
criminate revelry by himself in good and evil. No sooner had Emperor Theo- 
dosius the Great adopted and incorporated this God of Adam into a Christian 
Religion than he began to imitate him, and, with as high handed a majesty 
did he assert the prerogative of punishing virtue which is axiom_atic that a 
ruler will be no more moral than the God furnished by his creeds. This Em- 
peror doubled the tax on property in Antioch, Asia Minor. His subjects peti- 
tioned for a reconsideration of the demand as being oppressive, Theodosius 
took it as an insult and an affront to his majesty, and, with an army of forty 
thousand Goths as mercenaiies, murdered, tortured, and slew with whips of 
leaden balls the Roman citizens of Antioch until the remaining owners were 
terrified into obedience and paid the tax exacted. At Thessalonica to satisfy 



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the spirit of revenge, he lured fifteen thousand Roman citizens into a theater 
on pretense of giving a feast, then massacred them all with wives and babes. 

Any man who confesses Christ, acknowledges Adam's disobedience a 
continuous sin; not only in Adam, but in himself. But to acknowledge Adam's 
act a sin, is to deny that his expulsion from Eden by the Jewish God, was a 
valid absolution, which is nothing short of blasphemy in his Proselyte; is to 
deny in the realm of the Supreme Being, that obedience to the intuition of 
right is a virtue; is to deny that tyranny and oppression is a sin; is to deny that 
disobedience in any case, is a virtue; is to deny that continual consciousness of 
duty is a virtue; is to deny that to accept spoils from actual or pictorial murder 
is a vice for human thought. By confessing Christ, you deny all the foregoing 
principles; and in their place you have all the advantage of the Christian Relig- 
ion formulated by the words. Gal. 3:22, ^'The scripture hath concluded all 
under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that 
believe." 

What an exceedingly, unsearchable privilege for all mankind to be con- 
cluded under the sin of Adam; so that all that acknowledge the unassailable 
virtue of Adam to be a sin, can have a recompense for it, from the fact that, 
you accept the proffered reward, conditioned thereon, which means that if 
you renounce virtue, you can have Christ. 

The fact that by the mouth of the same witness, Paul, that the anony- 
mous bishops use to formulate Adam's disobedience by the words, I Cor. 15:22, 
''For as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." By the 
same witness are the words, I Tim. 2:14, ''Adam was not deceived, but the 
Woman being deceived was in the transgression." 

If that statement is true, what is the formula, Rom. 5:12, convicting Adam, 
as well as all mankind, published for by the same witness, as follows: "Where- 
fore as by one Man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and Death by sin, so 
Death passed upon All Men, for that all have sinned. " 

If Eve was the real culprit, why not annul the Jewish God's punishment 
of Adam by his Exile; unless it be to punish the husband for the offense of his 
wife and the crucifixion, and atonement of Jesus Christ for Adam's disobedi- 
ence, as is portrayed Rom, 5:19, "For as by one Man's (not Woman's) dis- 
obedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be 
made righteous." What is this contradiction narrated for, but made valid 
by the terms, inspiration, infallibility, the word of God; and so on the stalest 
trick of the sophist used for human bewilderment; unless all language can 
be emptied of its meaning at the will of sychophant. When an inspired writer 
states Adam was not deceived, but the Woman being deceived was in the trans- 
gression, the whole world are libeled with a sin of Adam; That Never Came 
Into Existence, and mankind is exhorted once a week to accept a sacrifice for 
a sin that never came into existence at all on their own showing. 

Can any man escape shame and chagrin, who has been the dupe to this 
sophistry. The fact that each of these formulas contradicts the other, and the 
suborned witness Paul, contradicts himself, is of infinitely less consequence 
than the fact that to admit Adam's act a sin, would be to confound the mythical 



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God of Adam with the Supreme Being, and to admit that the order of the world, 
is managed in behalf of sin; and virtue is an intrusion on that order, which must 
call for pardon; all of which relegates the dogmas of sin and salvation, which 
are the Christian Religion to the realm of falsehood, contradiction, absurdity 
and extinction. 

The act of thought or knowledge essential to distinguish good from evil 
is necessary to virtue; hence it follows by axiomatic moral necessity, that the 
writers of the New Testament who throughout its pages, have maligned Adam's 
act a sin, which is formulated a dozen times in Romans, chapter five have placed 
themselves in the awkward predicament of taking their stand in the ranks 
opposing right and virtue, which is none other than the ranks of vice. 

This blunder to the shame and chagrin of every intentional right-minded 
man, has all the proportions of a crime, and the effect in is no less so, when thrust 
upon the indiscriminating masses. If those men, who pretend to be religious, 
identify their lives with beliefs that are both Immoral and False through indif- 
ference, mistake, design, sheer fatigue, or the questions of the Moral Law, are, 
of not enough consequence, to employ their serious attention, and they harbor 
the self-flattery, that since truths of the Supreme Being hath more abounded 
through their lies unto his glory, why should they be judged sinners? The 
reason is, they desecrate the commands of the Moral Law, lying for an inferior 
God, as is charged up to the tent-maker, Paul, by the anonymous bishops, to 
cloak their moral infamy, will never exonerate them at the bar of the Supreme 
Being. The maxim ^^Ignorantia legis non excusat" is ubiquitous with- 
out NOTICE, and is as invincibly binding in the moral as in the secular or material 
world. The writer who will lie for the glory of a God, at the expense of an 
Adam, and the virtue he stands for, at the expense of the Moral Law of the 
Supreme Being, latent in the soul of man, need not look for shelter in the bishop's 
scathing terms, fathered on to a tent-maker, as follows: '^For if the truth of 
God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also 
judged a sinne-^. " 

Thus Adam, who by the writei was notdeceivd, but the child Eve, being 
deceived, was in the transgression of distinguishing good from evil. Thus the 
church in its attempt to malign woman, has utterly wrecked its entire sinful 
fabrication. This Jewish God, that inflicts punishment upon these garden 
infants, and piotects the vice of Cain with seven-fold vengeance, as a menace to 
the meddling world, was forced to accept for four thousand years, sacrifices of the 
blood of bulls and goats; and then his inspired writers said, it is impossible to 
remove sin with such sacrifices, and after raising a saciifice from the words, 
''Virgin," ''Immanuel" and the Holy Ghost, they concluded Ps. 69:31, ''This, 
also shall please the Lord, better than an ox or bullock, which hath horns and 
hoofs. 

Why do the sects persist in this sacrifice that "shall please their Lord, 
better than an ox or bullock," when in open defiance of any sacrifice, their 
own New Testament, in one of its lucid intervals teaches them, II Thes. 2:10:12, 
saying, "Because they receive not the Love of Truth that they might be saved, 
God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a Lie, that they 



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all might be Damned, who believe Not the Truth but had pleasure in unright- 
eousness. " Their own God can be of some service to them in this connection, 
and he tells them what follows those who. Believe Not the Truth, and if his 
Proselytes would follow this admonition alone, which is a saying that falls from 
the writer's mind, seemingly in defiance of the wilderness of error, falsehood 
and contradiction in which he is lost. 

You say as soon as a man investigates for himself, all the shakles of error 
and superstition drop off, and those who do not investigate, are accompanied 
with the lurking dogmas that generate fear, and from threats of servitude or 
death, with the word '^ God " as the author, a powerful incentive for the behavior 
of the unthinking masses, is furnished; and why not, as we are now doing, con- 
tinue to keep it up in the United States? The reason is obvious, the masses 
are, or may become citizens, and the government of the United States of Amer- 
ica, rests upon no other foundation, than such Justice, Aptness and Con- 
sistency, as the masses possess, and every Valid Reason Why; that the Masses 
Gain, the more Secure is the government. 

The most rational examples among men, are the ones that look to the proper 
activity and integrity of each faculty, as well as to a proper and reasonable 
knowledge of each intuitive idea; trusting each in its proper province to act 
truthfully, and reliably upon such knowledge as with no slight effort is attain- 
able; so that by this habit men become self-reliant. They show good judgment. 
Why? Because they keep their powers under discipline. Tiust them. If 
wrong, reform them themselves by Instant Correction, always on the alert 
to vanquish all forms of pretention that contradict the Moral Law, the laws 
of nature, self-evident, and axiomatic truth, which are the mind's cor- 
relatives of the mental and physical laws of the Supreme Being as set 
forth in nature. You never saw a self-made man that could be tempted 
with indulgences, if occasion were offered, he modestly turns aside con- 
sulting the tax they levy on his powers, and finally pushes them aside as 
evils in the path to self-preservation and perfection. With him, it is a ques- 
tion of growth or decay. His religion is a growth, not a belief. Its only value 
is its USE to protect mind and body from the premature ravages of time and 
environment. His conscience is a growth, not a belief, and when summoned 
to execution is the present voice of the aptness, justness, and integrity of all 
the faculties and intuitions of the soul. The philosopher, '^Socrates, whose 
name no man of Athens should hear without a blush," attempted to teach 
truth and impart the love of truth in place of dogmas that stupified his age, for 
which he was condemned and suffered death. In Bible discipline the more the 
miracle should contradict the laws of the Supreme Being bearing on unreasoned 
infantile obedience, the greater the fear engendered to provoke obedience by 
arbitrary insolent command the greater was the power of the oppressor, and 
those writers in the service of kings, despots, and emperors habitated in this 
sort of fiction have been designated, 'inspired." 

The dogmas of tyranny are commands founded upon a threat like the 
command to Adam. The method of breaking the ox, the rights of man in a 
free government are commands founded upon the reasons of its citizens. Organ- 



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izations that instruct their Proselytes to believe in dogmas that were invented 
for tyranny, to fit tyranny, which consign all of the human faculties to the realm 
of oblivion essential to the support of free institutions are positively immoral 
and indefensible. When these United States threw off the yoke of governmental 
despotism, they accomplished a great feat, but would have doubled the ad- 
vantage of their accomplishment if they had thrown off the yoke of religious 
tyranny as well. Commands founded on a threat which the original narrator 
Gen. 2:17 abandons by his God's decree Gen. 3:17 to 24: is the foundation of 
the Christian Religion. The disobedience of Adam commanded by the Moral 
Law is maligned by the church Original Sin, but that is nothing to its credit. 
Church dogmas, beliefs, and creeds that have been handed down to us from 
epochs of tyranny and despotism that were made to fit conditions then and 
there existing are wholly out of place in the realm of freedom where each indi- 
vidual must look to his own resoui ces of faculty and function for development. 
Such dogmas contradict the voice of our faculties as now developed and the 
conscience attending them. So that men are right here professing to a creed 
or dogmas created in a realm and an age of tyranny and from the discipline 
gained from the rational text-books of our public schools are daily thinking 
the very opposite to the perversion of conscience and corruption of good faith, 
an anomaly or paradox which closed the schools of the Roman Emperor on the 
advent of the New Testament, Original Sin and Redemption. 

Some have undertaken to impeach the voice of conscience as a guide for 
right conduct, because it differs in different individuals as well as tribes, and 
differs in the same individual in different states of development. But this is 
futile, this power is only a representative of the degree of aptness, justness, and 
consistency that the other faculties present for an emotion upon what knowl- 
edge is at once available and this emotion, or, as we say, ''conscience" can 
repoit only upon such order and consistency of knowledge as is in possession 
of the individual at the time. When bound by oath, dogma, creed, or covenant 
its voice is not the same as the remorse or distraction arising from one faculty 
or intuition exercising its insidious prowess or imposition upon the others. 

The mind's readiness to accept a substance which arises by inference from 
observation by a recognition that certain qualities or properties belong to cer- 
tain beings or existences and are related to one another by a certain law. For 
instance, bodies that have weight gravitate or attract one another, and, when 
this fact is discovered by a mind to be a law of their nature, it then becomes 
an axiom of such human mind by use of the formula, ''All material bodies 
gravitate. " And again once an axiom, always an axiom. Here the human 
mind arrives at the perfection of its nature. It knows absolutely axiomatic 
truth, and every contradiction to such truth vanishes as an absurdity or else the 
mind is self-impeached by its own self-invited falsehood. Self-evident truths and 
axioms when acquired by the mind become its standards or eternal verities. 
The man that disputes or contradicts them does no harm or violence to the 
verities, for in the abstract they are eternal entities that endure for others, as 
fast as evoked, discovered and made use of, though the particular individual 
disputing had never even existed. A man may have the hardihood to cause 



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his body to decay or perish prematurely by refusing to take nourishment for its 
sustenance. Such an one can do no violence to nourishment as such. He 
simply does violence to his own body that is perishing for the want of subsistence. 
So, likewise the man that disputes self-evident truths and' axioms is as power- 
less as an infant to do them violence. But such outrage and violence done to a 
man's faculties whose sole sanity depends upon the acceptance of intuitive, 
self-evident truth: the challenge of which axiomatic truth relegates them at once to 
the realm of impotence. Now then the axiom that all material bodies gravitate 
which the mind generalizes inductively by means of the necessary idea of 
''resemblance/' that all material bodies having the property weight mutually 
attract each other. So that by the use of the necessary idea of ''resemblance, " 
the mind generalizes, and makes for its use, axiomatic truths which in turn 
become standards, which are as fixed and infallible, as the necessary idea of 
"resemblance" itself from which the achievement set out. Now then a mind 
cannot arbitrarily contradict this axiomatic truth which has now gained the 
prerogative of being one of its lav/s as well as a correlate that matches an ordi- 
nance of nature of the Supreme Being without impeaching its own power and 
veracity. So that a man who disputes axiomatic truth breaks down his own 
mind; stories or fables containing incidents as Elijah passing in body from earth 
to sky, which the clerical zealot of superstition narrates as history, contra- 
dicts the axiom that all material bodies gravitate and disputes the order of the 
world, and the powers of the human mind with which to explore that order. 

When a Proselyte of Mohammed declares that his Savior ascended to 
Heaven on the mare, Barac, a borrowed steed from the angel Gabriel, or a Pros- 
elyte of Jesus declares that his Savior walked upon the waves of the sea or 
traversed in body the depths of space from earth to sky. The axiom that all 
material bodies gravitate is false or else these Mohammedan and 
Christian myths or stories believed as events that transpired are false 
and can be admitted only to the realm of fiction. Or else the mind is 
reconciled to the condition of permanent infancy or a perpetual wreck. The 
axiom that no two bodies can occupy the sam.e space at the same time arrived 
at by the induction that several individual bodies always occupy different spaces 
at the same time. Either this axiom is valid or it is not. If it is valid, it is 
an universal and necessary law of the world in its operation and has its correlate 
by being a law or axiom of the human mind in its thinking. Now then any 
story that contradicts this axiom is absurd, for it contradicts the working order 
of the m.aterial world and the faculties of the human mind with which that order 
only can be explored. The axiom that nature is uniform is false if men walk 
the sea, traverse the air, live and pray three days in the stomach of a whale! 
Human bodies unprotected can depend upon the mercy of carnivorous lions or 
the ravages of a fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than necessary to con- 
sume human flesh: Children born with no human father like John the Baptist, 
or Jesus, the Nazarene, if these statements stand for events that transpired as a 
matter of history, then the axiom that nature is uniform is false and absurd, 
and this axiom together wth the others should be cancelled from our school 
text-books, or else these fables should be taught to. children at least as fables 



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and cancelled as events in all literature and especially Bibles or sacred writings 
of whatsoever name or nature, Why? in order that the integrity of the fac- 
ulties, and intuitions as a guide in life, may be maintained in their purity and 
power and the human mJnd made less potent for protection and perfection 
than is yielded by the instincts of less rational existences. Can there be any 
reason why the human mind should continue to revel in these falsehoods, con- 
tradictions, and absurdities? Does it make a m.an more civilized to practice 
falsehood, fraud, and duplicity, that is to declare that he believes a certain axiom 
true and, at the same time, to declare that its contradictory or opposite is 
true, which is an utter impeachment and abandonment of the mind's powers. 
For example, nature is uniform, but fables which conflict or contradict this 
uniformity may, by a fiction of theology, called apostatization, pass from mere 
verbal incidents that a writer invents for his purpose to events that actually 
transpired. Men, like the inhabitants of Nineveh that could not discern their 
right hand from their left, can be kept in the ranks of superstition for perpetual 
servility and impotency by resort to the maxim, resisting knowledge of good 
and evil, Vv^hich m.akes a jest of free moral responsibility and a mockery of the 
Moral Law, and that other maxim, I Cor. 14:38, which states, ''If any man be 
ignorant, let him be ignorant." Also Matt. 12:41 are the words, ''The men of 
Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. And 
who were the men of Nineveh? They, according to the narrative, were a tribe 
of savages, that the preaching of Jonah, gave rise to their king's decree, say- 
ing, "let neither man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything, but let man and 
beast be covered with sack-cloth. Who can tell if God will turn, and repent?" 
And God repented, saying, (in rebuke to Jonas, whose Nero-like propensity, 
yearned to see a conflagration) "Should I not spare Nineveh, wherein are more 
than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between Their Right 
Hand and Their Left Hand, and also much cattle. " 

For three hundred years, immediately following the advent of the 
New Testament, all public schools in the Roman Empire, from Spain 
to Egypt, were closed, and not until thirty-six thousand of their 
cities and villages were captured by the Mohammedans, two hundred and fifty 
years later, were they reopened, and by the Mohammedans at that, whose 
cities became centers of learning for the entire Roman Empire. 

It was thought that the words, "If any man be ignorant, let him be ignor- 
ant," of I Cor. 14:38, fell from the very lips of the Jewish God, and even the 
words were put into the mouth of the Savior, as a whip with which 
to inflict the educated, "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this 
generation, and shall condemn it." 

Why? Because this Jewish God shows special favors to the ignorant, 
in-so-much that, he repents the evil that he threatened, when they know neither 
good or evil — right hand or left hand, verified by his treatment of Adam and 
the Ninevites. 

If we make the perfection of our nature the end, all proffers of sophistry 
and speculative mystery, vanish like the meadow fog before the sun. 

What the present age demands, is character, reliable, free from the false. 



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Can it be had with a single distorted faculty? Never. Then release the mind 
from patent beliefs, that are stupifying it. Next study the principle of evolu- 
tion, which the rise of man, not his fall. 

Original purity, and conditions to keep pure, not Original Sin and guile. 
Total perfection and how to achieve it, not total depravity. What would be 
thought to-day of writer of religious fiction, that should pose as hero, one who 
had twelve legions of angels to back him, but regardless of the positive crim- 
inality involved by the deliberate surrender of bodily life, to fulfill legends 
ascribed to the Jewish God, permitted himself to be crucified, as was the case 
with the object of redemption. Matt. 26:53:54, saying, ^'Thinkest thou that I 
cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve 
LEGIONS OP angels, but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that 
thus it must be. 

But the bishop who wrote the Book Matthew, makes it of paramount 
consideration for his hero to suffer death, arise from the dead, or meet any 
other exigency so long as he can pose as an object in fulfillment of the saying, 
for the comfort of King Ahaz, verified. Matt. 1:23, '^Behold a virgin shall be 
with child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted, is God with us. '' 

If King Ahaz's time riddle can be tortured to yield a Savior to forgive sin, 
perpertrated against Adam's God, which is positively a virtue in the realm of 
the Supreme Being, which Savior must be confessed, and to confess him, the 
Proselyte admits Original Sin, and agrees to become a sharer in any penalty 
decreed by the church that he should suffer, that is, he assents in order to gain 
absolution of his share of Adam's affront to the Jewish God. 

What possible good can it do our children to teach them that these absurdi- 
ties of church-craft, are the work of the Supreme Being, when it is absurd that 
such connivance could be other than the concoctions of tyranny, in order to 
furnish a license or passport to rulers for the complete despotism of man. All 
such sophistry invented, by the tyrannical schemes of a shameless clergy, must 
work destruction of life and faculty to all that indulge in such revels. So that 
continued infancy, apathy, become as a little child, then you can enter the 
Jewish God's heaven. 

What would be thought of an animal that taught its offspring, to be mind- 
less of its sure destroyer, as though it should always share maternal care; why 
if you think at all, you must say that by such conduct those victims will soon 
perish from the earth. 

Now then, when any body of theologians who from sheer idleness and folly 
will dogmatize myths and set up fables, for men and their offspring that con- 
tradict the normal relation of the mind of man, to the laws of nature; as creeds 
and beliefs, all followers that take up such absurdities seriously, and pretend 
to believe them are either lost to reason, or are by policy, chained to hypocracy. 
Then it is manifest that any sect, seriously practicing and teaching such absurd- 
ities, are sealing their own sure doom and death sentence, as much as the animal, 
that courts destruction, is destined to perish from the earth. 

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that fit that order, make their advocates falsifiers. They were written in the 
New Testament, as doctrines to subjugate the barbarous Hunn, Goth, and 
Vandal, into obedience to the Roman Emperors. 

There the New Testament dogmas had their origin; there their bellicose 
usefulness ended; and for mankind as a creed, to further burden itself with 
such nonsense, is like digging up graveyards to make mummies. Any true 
citizen of the Supreme Being, is safe that keeps powers unsoiled with the dog- 
mas of the Christian sophist, and marshalls them in accordance with the laws 
of mind that knows once an axiom, always an axiom, and a single exception 
must destroy the mind's power for truth. But the Christian Proselyte who 
believes in a God that never shows his power except when he contradicts the 
regular running order of the world is lost already. Such is Christian fanaticism. 
Do not be flattered for one instant that errors and dogmas sealed with the 
authority of any church, have given any true moral philosopher in any age or 
nation one moment's personal uneasiness about his truth. He pities his blood 
relation most, humanity some, and the liberal professions none whatsoever 
that harvest and feast on human error. He knows that the apathy latches 
and personal indifference of mankind is responsible by yielding its consent for 
a large share of their being in condition to permit the propagation of error, and 
the bread and butter professions that subsist on human error must not be ex- 
pected to remove it. All the crime, suffering, and misery that result from 
religious wars have arisen from the Holy Bible and where despotism lacked 
energy in the Old Testament its words are apostatized and given a meaning 
that Church Councils have foisted upon it. The entire Bible is a crude form 
of tyrannical fiction. The New Testament brands the Old Testament and the 
Jews as teachers of fables as is instanced. Gal. 4:24, that the story of Abraham 
and his descendants are an allegory, meaning fiction, and, since Abraham and 
his descendants are the actors that play the largest part of the scenes therein 
contained, and, being specially aimed at the child of promise, his mother being 
overshadowed by higher powers, so all the offspring of higher powers are ficiton 
or allegory by the same rule, making John, the Baptist, and Jesus the Nazerene 
mere fictions by the Bible narrative itself, verified. Gal. 4:24. This all being 
mere fiction and that, as the Church Councils thought a very unsteady founda- 
tion for the dogmas of original sin, the fall of man, and total depravity, and 
salvation through the body of Christ to rest on. In its unlimited prowess, 
the church by its bishops and Holy Ghost, took the self-contradictory position 
in regard to its Bible of making its fictions into a history of men and events, 
that once existed and transpired, and caused its contents to be inspired by its 
Holy Ghost, which Holy Ghost, at their discretion also became the Lord and 
Giver of Life, and so became by vote the Father of our Lord and Savior and 
Jesus Christ, verified Matt. 1:18. As also by vote and the aid of King Ahaz 
virgin of B. C. 742, the Virgin Mary, was apostatized from the word '^ Virgin'' 
and united by hypostatis, with the Holy Ghost and so became the Savior's 
mother A. D. 381, which Virgin Mary, fifty years later, by vote of the bishops 
at Ephesus, A. D. 431, became the Mother of God the Father, as well as Mother 
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But as the Holy Ghost was father to God the Son, and the Virgin Mary was 
mother to God the Son; made so by vote of council, A. D. 381, it should be no 
great hardship for the Christian Proselyte, to believe that his orphan God the 
Father, could wait fifty years until the council at Ephesus, A. D. 431, should be 
convoked and should consent that the Virgin of King Ahaz, used as an abstract 
term, for motherhood in the passing of time, shall be his mother also, which 
belief was then and there established. But sixteen years later in Spain, A. D. 
447, it was decreed that the Holy Ghost should proceed from both father and 
son; so virtually, that makes the Virgin Mary Grandm^other to the Holy Ghost, 
which Holy Ghost, sixty-six years previously, was made father to the virgin's 
first son. But to return from these spiritual genealogies, which so develops 
the faith of the Proselyte. What would you think of a man, who should say 
that the history of Rome, Greece, or the United States, was inspired. You 
would think that the man that said it, was beside himself, or that these histories 
were false or fictions to require it. Theological inspiration has absolutely no 
relation or application to a work of history. Inspiration is applicable to the 
mind, of a writer, who is wielding the weapon, of the Moral Law, or a writer 
of fiction like the mind, which produced the Plays of Shakespeare, with its 
heroes, and subordinate characters, scenes and circumstances, necessary to 
exhibit the prologue, catastrophy, and epilogue of the play, but merely to 
record facts of history, is to be skilled in the use >f stating events as they trans- 
pired. 

What is the outcome of changing fiction to history; first, it kills theological 
inspiration by the law of contradiction; second, it raises all the writers' heroes and 
subordinate characters, wholly the fruit of his creative fancy or imagination, 
from the death of mere images, as incidents for the writer's purpose, to the life 
of historic characters, that once lived, moved, and had their being the same as 
we do. Now, to say that a newspaper is inspired, is the most opprobrious 
epithet you could apply to its reporters veracity for the events of the day. 
Inspired Events, are false events, so likewise inspired history is false history, 
or Fiction which may be true to nature, or false to both nature and reason, as 
are the fables and miracles of scripture. Thus, inspired history, in order to 
make secure the dogmas of Original Sin and Redemption, is a collapse, failure, 
and contradiction in terms. 

The church contended that the threat of death, instead of that for bodily 
dissolution which the Jewish God had already abandoned for exile from Eden, 
meant death of the soul in sin. Thus by this act of double knavery, in foisting 
upon the myth a double meaning, they established as they thought. Original 
Sin, by translating mythology into metaphor or inspired history, but they 
have made it a work of fiction by their own act from which their cunning is 
powerless to extricate them. 

Inspired history, is fiction. They invented this artifice for the conduct 
of the masses, in the realm of despots for the maudlin servile, mind of infantile 
obedience. Their unlimited prowess and lust for power, actuated them to 
turn virtue into vice, or Adam's obedience to the Moral Law, a Virtue, into 
disobedience to a command enjoining perpetual ignorance, and the surrender 



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of assent to a crucified sacrifice, which is a Vice before the bar of the Moral 
Law. 

And thus, to turn the Supreme Being's intuitive principle of right in man 
to WRONG, to fetter and cripple him in the stockade of theoretical vice, so that 
he become forever obedient to tyranny, caprice, and the dictates of oppression. 

By a dogma of faith, they made the unassailable virtue of Adam, the vice 
of all men, and from Isa. 7:14, in downright mockery of Adam's exile from Eden, 
gave them a Savior to forgive it, and to be an idol for their worship, verified, 
Matt. 1:23. 

When the church adopted this stupenduous artifice of Christ's crucifixion 
in place of sacrificing a disobedient Jonah, a Hottentot, or the blood of bulls and 
goats, b}^ fixing sin in all men throughout the earth, forever to be born by 
charging them up as accomplices in Adam's disobedience, which by the way, 
was not Adam's sin at all, or Eve's who was libeled with the sin, in order to 
re-enforce an object for Original Sin ^'so there be no hinge or loop to hang a 
doubt on" should Adam escape, in order to bring all men to the church for 
absolution, thus making an endless chain for remunerative, clerical service for 
the Proselyte to meet and pay. 

Is there any wonder that after Gregory's exit to Heaven, he was cannonized 
Saint? That worse than senseless dogma, wielded as a whip by the church, 
has held the masses of Christendom spellbound for fifteen centuries; and for 
over four centuries in America. Thus, the fable of Adam and the fiction of 
Redemption, believed by the unscrupulous, indis criminating Proselyte, to be 
an event or narrative of history, in order to fix in the mind of the masses the 
enormity of disobedience to oppression, as a conscious sin in them, that is 
transmissible by inheritance, so that remunerative, clerical service, by con- 
fession or means of grace, must bring all men forever to be born throughout 
the earth, whether in realms of despotism, where the dogmas originated, or in 
governmental republics, where such dogmas are merely retained from force of 
habit, to the corruption of public morals. 

Notwithstanding, they bring the penitent to the sanctuary to have his 
guile of inherited disobedience removed. But what Church was ever known 
to Graduate a Proselyte. But St. Gregory's artifice to have Old Testament 
authority for his dogma, changes the fable of Adam and its incident of fiction 
imagined by the writer: to historic personages and events that once existed 
and transpired, and such a change gave rise to an absurdity than which there is 
no greater, an absurdity, that calls for the christian maxim, that anything and 
''everything, is possible with their God. " 

As Adam's sin as an historical event, was committed during the first year 
of his life, and Cain was born during Eve's second year. Thus the church has 
the Bible inspired by its Holy Ghost; and sealed as the infallible word of the 
Jewish God, and thus by the free use of the maximal subterfuge, that ''every- 
thing is possible with this God" and by the dogmas of inspiration and infallibil- 
ity, all contradictions, absurdities, apostatizations, and falsifying narratves 
in both Old and New Testaments, are launched beyond the intellectual shore 
of all such tribes, as mere christians or Ninevites, who were to rise in judgment 



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against the Roman Empire, who for ignorance could not distinguish their right 
hand from their left, and some others in the same plight, who would not, if 
they could, become critical in distinguishing good from evil, virtue from vice, 
or the true from the false. 

Thus, a text-book, first fiction or mythology, then history infallible and 
inspired, enables the church to find upon its pages anything and everything 
that is wanted for tyranny and serfdom. 

As an historic event, Adam did not die on the day of disobedience, but as 
the legend goes, continued to live to the age of nine hundred thirty years; so 
that as an event of history, Adam's death on the day of disobedience, is flatly 
contradicted, but the church, finding the literal execution of this threat, dead 
as history by the law of contradiction, by a difference of one day to nine hun- 
dred and twenty-nine years. She isolates the threat of death and swings it 
back to fiction, resuscitates it from its death blow by contradiction as history, 
and construes it as metaphorically meaning instead of death for dissolution of 
the body, death of the soul in sin; and upon this Shift and jugglery of fiction 
and event, founds the sublime dogmas of Original Sin^ Total Depravity, 
and the Fall of Man. 

In order to make such fictitious incidents or myths into historic characters 
and events, the church must reconcile the contradiction to the laws of nature 
and axioms of the mind, that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the 
same time, that natuie is uniform, that all material bodies gravitate, all of 
which laws are the order of the Supreme Being and when achieved as knowl- 
edge become the axioms of intelligent man. But, as history, the man, Jesus, 
contradicts this order by passing through solid walls, walking upon sea waves, 
and like Mohammed ascending from earth to sky. Consequently, as history, 
by the law of contradiction, to natural order, all these exploits are absurd. 
These fictitious incidents that hedge the tyrant and expose the subject to con- 
tinual ridicule, the standard Ninevite or the average Proselyte of Christianity 
knows no more about than the lamb that awaits the will of its owner to perish, 
or an elephant the use of a decoy. But any true citizen of the Supreme Being 
that keeps his intuitions and faculties unsullied with the dogmas of Christian 
sophists and marshals his powers in accordance with laws as he learns them from 
the operation of nature, which, to him become axioms that, in any event, could 
never yield an exception as every event must have a cause until you arrive at 
the intelligent principle which itself originates cause is an axiom which a single 
exception would destroy. But, for a man that has passed from childhood and 
is still in possession of his faculties, to unmask these falsehoods, contradictions 
and absurdities, and relegate the entire contents of these clerical legends of the 
Old and New Testaments to their proper province, as being nothing more sig- 
nificant than a relic of ancient lore uttering fables that express the relation of 
the chief, tyrant and Emperor to his tribe, serf, and subject, and when license 
or a passport for indulgence is demanded by despotism first make it the action 
of the prevailing God then imitate him, and any other relation or application 
of their contents in chief contradicts the intention of the writers. When the 
bishops, under Emperor Theodosius, changed the blood of bulls and goats to 



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the pictorial blood and body of God the Son for his subjects with which to make 
an atonement for the disobedience of Adam and for the purpose changed the 
fables of the Old Testament to the history of men and events, that as fables 
could do nothing but show the skill of the writer in setting forth his environ- 
mental prepossessions on the subject of ruler and ruled. But which, as his- 
tory a change is necessitated from a single lesson or license for immorality on 
the part of the ruler, and of unreasoned obedience on the part of the ruled, with 
fictitious incidents and characters, used as rhetorical figures to bring out the 
relation, to a hundred conti adictions and absurdities in the order of natuial 
events; but the maxims that the christian uses for self-stultification is the one 
used to smother Sarah's laugh, at absurdity, '^Is anything too hard for the 
Lord, " or the doubt of the Virgin Mary at absurdity, "With God, nothing shall 
be impossible" or the doubt of Zacharias, for which he was struck dumb. 

Thus, your Testament writers and believers which advocate that every- 
thing is possible with the God of their legends, (which is exceedingly convenient 
fo a maxim, considering the legends) whether his conduct contradicts the decree 
of the Supreme Being or not; whether his conduct contradicts the axioms of 
human intelligence or not. But be it known that any Proselyte, who fears or 
serves as a God, a being, which writers invent and attribute with absurdity, 
falsehood and self contradiction, to stand as passport or license for despotic 
meanness; and then to make their impotence complete, resort to the maximal 
subterfuge, that ''Everything is possible with their God," because the Bible 
repeats the proposition several times. But his conclusion follows his premises; 
notwithstanding his premises are false, both in fact and principle, and the maxim 
is exemplified; but for secular laws, the immorality of Bibles and their Gods, 
will be the measure of the morality of their followers. 

Is he who is in league with error, by setting up contradictions, to the uni- 
formity of law and principle, secular or moral, the friend of man or his pro- 
fession, which has risen wholly from the Breech of Law and Principle: 
There is only one answer, and that confines such to his profession, like the cob- 
bler, who condemned railroads as an infringement on his occupation. 

When a fable is written in the interest of oppression, as the writers of the 
New Testament intended; however, contrary to the intention of the author, 
fragments of it, are related to the Moral Law, when taken alone, which those 
bishops blinded by their lust for power, could not detect, as is evidenced by 
their awkward position before the thinking world, of founding the dogmas of 
atonement and salvation, upon unassailable virtue in man, from which their 
moral deformity was powerless to deliver them, which virtue is, and always was, 
a thorn in the flesh of oppression. That is, virtue contradicts oppression; and 
must be treated by it as a vice. 

But the deception had been kept up so long that the Church-atrophied 
Proselyte cannot break away from his moorings. Those bishops must have 
been short of material to establish Original Sin from an act of disobedience, 
to a command enjoining the deformity of perpetual ignorance, arising from 
the act of an infant during its first year and that too, normal conditions being 
allowed as an ethical principle, was inevitable, should Adam remain true to 



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moral necessity, which raises the act of disobedience to a virtue of the highest 
merit. Then for one hundred and fifty bishops from Europe, Asia, and Africa 
to raise by vote a Savior from the apostatization of the Word ''Immanuel" 
to atone for such disobedience was an exhibition of the total lack of their ethical 
skill and insight. But this is the material that the Christian Religion is founded 
on. A dogma for obedience at the sacrifice of right and a dogma of redemption 
at the sacrifice of right by imputing sin to Adam and the extortion of indefensi- 
ble assent to crucifixion from the penitent all of which is verified, I Co. 15:22, 
by the words, 'Tor as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 
Also Rom. 5:12 are the words, ''Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into 
the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
sinned. " Thus is the dogma of original sin unmistakably the foundation of the 
Christian Religion. And, Rom. 10:9 covers the dogma of salvation by the 
following words, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and 
shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt 
be saved. " This is the Christian religion. That is it is original sin and salva- 
tion complete. A man is offered this doctrine of his being individually tainted 
with the sin of Adam. He is told that he is an original sinner through Adam 
not knowing how to dissipate so flagrant a falsehood. He says to himself, 
"If that is the case, there is no use in my practicing virtue any more for the 
present at least. " Original Sin of Adam. I did not know that I was such a 
sinner, but I guess I am. I will give the church the benefit of the doubt any- 
way. I will do some effectual sinning like Paul for the present. After I get 
enough of it, I will join the church. There is no use in being saved unless j^ou 
have sinned enough to make it worth while." This is the kind of Christian 
sophistry that gloats to set the whole world astride the dogma of salvation at 
the expense of the intuition of truth, right, and justice by the doctrine set up 
in Rom. 5:12 by the words, "Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the 
world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
sinned," which sets forth the dogma of original sin, and Rom. 1*^:9, which sets 
forth the remedy saying, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, 
and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou 
shalt be saved. " Original sin coupled with these promises and doctrines of 
regeneration, conversion, and salvation, held out as overtures to the uninquir- 
ing portion of humanity, is responsible for a large share of sin, crime and iniquity, 
which in their professional zeal and self-righteousness, they attempt to shift 
on to other sources of evil. But it is an unalterable law of this universe, and 
the Supreme Being that backs it; That Truth, never Breeds Error, and if 
we had no other guide than the fact that the scheme of Original Sin and Re- 
demption, breeds error, Reason has sufficient evidence of its Falsity. 

Just as sure as public executions create an impulse to crime, so sure does 
the judicial murder of Christ, whether actual or pictorial, have its natural 
tendency to make criminals, when once a week, the scences of a human crucifix 
are flourished before the minds of the unreflecting portion of humanity. 

Adam and Eve constitute the human inhabitants of the earth; the Garden 
of Eden, the land in their possession ; the tree of knowledge of good and evil, 



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is a menace to their allegiance. Adam is prohibited the knowledge of good and 
evil. Of course he knew before twelve months old, what all this meant, that 
took its author, St. Gregory, and one hundred and fifty bandying bishops of 
the Court of Theodosius, no small wrangle to have inspired from fiction to his- 
tory and back again to fiction, in order to rear Original Sin with which to taint 
the Emperor's subjects and all men else forever to be born throughout the earth, 
That is to say, these garden infants knew what all this meant after the snake 
explained it to them, who seemed to know, clairvoiantly, like the Wolf of Rom- 
ulus and Remus, what the trouble was. 

When their innocent minds pried into the reason for such obedience, the 
snake said, '^ there is no reason in it.'' It is mere obedience to the authority 
of command, without sense or reason. Break the spell and pass from serfs 
to citizens and live like Gods. 

These fables in the Old Testament were written by the scribe in the employ 
of tyrannical kings in order to warp, dwarf and bind the minds of serfs and sub- 
jects, to the rulers caprice. And every whit, that this fable of Adam was adopt- 
ed for and made the foundation of Original Sin and the Christian Religion, by 
the bishops of the church, was to furnish an artificial passport, source or license 
for the complete degradation of the masses, which would divert their feeble 
minds from the cruelty, caprice and misrule of the merciless tyrant. 

St. Gregory, said, in effect. Show the masses, that they are accomplices 
in Adam's disobedience, and have inherited the displeasure of his God, and must 
come to their knees at the altar of the church, as suppliants of mercy and atone- 
ment and the Emperor is secure on his throne, and one hundred bishops said. 
Amen. 

The anonymous bishops make use of the fable of Adam's disobedience, to 
rear the most stupenduous artifice for quenching the spirits of the masses into 
humility by a shift of the moral to the immoral, and the immoral to the stand- 
ard of Adam's obedience to the Moral Law. 

Thus tyranny has its subjects trained without reasons, like the ox at the 
plow with fear of the whip ; and the disobedience of Adam, that passes by inheri- 
tance to all men, as a theological sin, which disobedience as a matter of fact, 
is a virtue, and commanded by the Moral Law; but tyranny impeaching the 
disobedience as sin, which is the same thing as transposing virtue to vice, calls 
to its aid an artificial atonement, sacrifice, Messiah, or Savior, made by their 
votes an object of worship, upon whom to unload the burden of natural virtue, 
and in its place defile the conscience by criminal assent, by the acceptance of 
proffered benefits or to absolve imputed sin. 

And since Adam ate of the knowledge of the good and evil, which is formu- 
lated by the church as follows: Rom. 5:12, ''As by one man sin entered into 
the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all have 
sinned. " 

And I Cor. 15:22, states the dogma, ''For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive." Is it any wonder after such treatment of 
Adam, in the acquisition of knowledge, by the Jewish God, that the bishops, 
who adopted him, made it their maxim, I Cor. 14:38, "If any man be Ignor- 
ant let him be Ignorant." 



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After the lesson in Genesis showing, that it cost Adam nine hundred and 
twenty-nine years in exile for what little knowledge he gained before a year old, 
in the distinguishing of good and evil, and in addition by the construction of 
theology, it cost the entire human race the vice of its assent, to the crime of 
crucifixion to absolve the effect of the knowledge four thousand years later. 

All though the Jewish God said, ''The man has become as one of us to 
know good and evil," But the sublime lesson from the fable is, that a command 
must be obeyed, no matter how immoral, sinful, vicious, iniquitious or tyran- 
nous, that command may be, if the word ''God" is used or anchored to it by a 
writer, which the church concludes to have been inspired, wholly irrespective 
of the intention of the writer, who is bold enough to display a passport or license 
which shall further an Emperor's or ruler's designs. 

The great difficulty and mystery that the masses for ages have been power- 
less to unravel, is the manner and use or purpose in which writers for oppression 
in both Old and New Testaments, have employed the word "God. " 

Whenever tyranny has sought to tighten the bands of its caprice upon the 
masses, the word "God" has been employed in the connection to emphasize 
and to make effectual its orders, and the unscrupulous use of that name has 
led the masses into the false impression, that even vice, when anchored to a 
God, becomes virtue. 

And the king or ruler, being the Lord's annointed, was free from all possible 
error, so that the most astounding vice perpetrated in the name of a tyrant, 
or God with such vice furnished as passport, was considered by the rnasses, to 
be the ultimate of virtue. 

Consequently, in whatever relation or application, the word "God" should 
be employed, that of itself was a sufficient license, passport or warrant for the 
rectitude of an act or event in which the masses could repose their faith, con- 
fidence and obedience. In other words, the immorality of a Biblical narrative 
of a God, is the measure of the morality of his worshippers, and the word " God " 
was unscrupulously used by oppression in the Book of Genesis, and the fable 
of Adam and Eve, which lacks the merit under the writer's hand of even yield- 
ing a moral, but is used to extoll the vice of ignorance and punishes the virtue 
of knowledge, which is positively the active material for the intuition of right 
and truth. 

And this God rears a flaming sword to sever the aspiration in man of eternal 
life. In utter mockery of the Soul's Assurance op Continued Existence, 
which is undoing the work of the Supreme Being. 

In short this Bible God forbids knowledge of good and evil, and eternal 
life to man. Thus, if any critic should look for a sample of first-class despotism, 
he shall not fail to find it depicted in the narrated relation of this Bible God and 
his Man Adam, and the fact that Emperor Theodosius and his court of bishops 
who reared all of the christian dogmas, but baptism, have adopted this God, 
that tyranny declares to be the Creator and foster father of Adam, as the wolf 
was the foster mother of the founders of Rome. 

Thus, since A. D. 381, tyranny has flourished once a week the fiction of a 
crucifix, to perpetuate its interest, but the six thousand Roman Patriots, 



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who dangled from crosses on the Apian way in the cause of freedom, has been 
hushed and their deeds are never mentioned at the altar. 

Is freedom dead, that her defeats as well as her achievements are smother- 
ed? And does tyranny still live and stalk abroad and her voice still echoes 
•once a week? The only begotten son of the God of Biblical legends, tells his 
uncles, the Jews, who claim precisely the same God, that they '^compass sea and 
land to make one Proselyte and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more 
the child of Hell than yourselves". This is the condition, which meets the 
newcomer to the christian faith. Then he calls his uncles, '^ blind guides, which 
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, '' and to cap the climax, as a divine prophet 
of his own burial, he is made to say, '^ As Jonah was three days and three nights 
in the whale's belly, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights 
(afloat) in the heart of the earth." And he added, '^Ye serpents, ye genera- 
tion of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell?" 

These men, who take all this abuse, pretend to worship precisely the same 
God of which this Jesus is a part. But be it known to all men, who abandon 
the Supreme Being of the universe, to gain acquaintance and claim relation- 
-ship with a sectarian God, as is depicted in Rom. 19:18:23, ''That hath mercy 
on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth, hath not the 
potter power over the clay of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honor, 
and another unto dishonor? What if the Jewish God willing to show his wrath, 
and make his power known, (since he had at his disposal no universe in which 
his power could be displayed) endured with much long suffering the vessels of 
his wrath, fitted to destruction, and that he might make known the riches of 
his glory On the Vessels of His Mercy, which he had before prepared (or 
predestined) unto glory. " 

Such is the imaginary God of the christian, and such is the dogma under the 
God of predestination. And Gal. 3:22, ''the scripture hath concluded all under 
sin, that the promise by faith by Jesus Christ, might be given to them to that 
belie veth. " 

And a part of this "God, hath concluded all in unbelief, that he might have 
mercy upon all, "and another part saith, " He that belie veth not shall be 
damned. " Any Proselyte of the Christian Religion, who is so brain-scattered, 
as to abandon his use of the Moral Law, by giving assent to immoral dogmas, 
dimming his faculties, intuitive ideas and powers, for the acquistition of truth 
and right, and all for the sake of j^oking his soul to the belief of Original Sin. 

But be it known to all Proselytes of the Jewish God, that there is positively 
no more show whatever for You than theie was for Adam; and if you aie dis- 
tinguishing good from evil, or looking for eternal life, the penalty that Adam 
paid for indulging such fancies at the bar of the Jewish God, was hard labor for 
nine hundred and twenty-nine years; so you can see what Adam suffered for 
keeping company with this God and his snakes. 

Any man who has positive faith in the Moral Law, cannot be persuaded to be- 
lieve anything contrary to that law. What does the serpent say, Gen. 3 :5, "God 
doeth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye 
shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil," (an utterance that is absolutely 



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faultless). What does the Jewish God say, Gen. 3:22, ''And Lord God said, 
behold the man has become as one of us (pluial, meaning God, Serpent 'k Co.) 
to know good and evil; having gained knowledge and now, lest he take also of 
the tree of Life and eat and live forever, " he must vacate and till the ground. 
The judgment of this serpent and Bible God agree, viz: The seipent says, 
''Youi eves shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.'' 
The Jewish God says, ''Behold the man has become as one of us, " Now, lest 
he put forth his hand to the tree of Life, and eat and live fore vex*, this Jewish 
God, (or friend of man) who made no p 'etention that man should live foreve^*, 
on the contrary drives him from the garden, lest he should eat of that t^ee and 
live forever; so this Jewish God drives out the man to serve at hard labor for 
life, and a long one, since he lived nine hundred and twenty-nine years there- 
after. 

Now what is the trouble with this fable; the trouble is with the writer of it, 
for he lacks the wisdom to apply the fable for his purpose, after his imagination 
has yielded it. He attempts to punish disobedience, but he has tangled him. 
self with the principle of right, which has defeated his purpose, and has swallow- 
ed him, and his God in the myasmic abyss of self-contradiction and absurdity- 
Do you ask what Adam's sin was? He ate of the tree of knowledge of good 
and evil. What does that mean? It is a metaphor or flourish of rhetoric, 
which means to distinguish between good and evil, or the power to relate one's 
acts to such knowledge, which in the order of mind is a condition, preceding the 
choice of accepting the good, and rejecting the bad. 

Would such a distinction and choice make a man as one of the Jewish Gods? 
The serpent said it would, verified. Gen. 3 :22. This Jewish God said it did make 
Adam "as one of us. " Which must forever bar this Jewish God as just, reason- 
able or moral, from any further molestation of Adam's rights; and consign him 
to immediate self-correction for commanding ignorance. 

Thus, we have the prophecy of the serpent and the judgment of this Jewish 
God expressed that the serpent's prophecy was fulfilled. But this unscrupulous 
God don't stop here; he punishes Adam, as the fable goes, for his disobedience, 
and for the further consideration, lest that he eat of the Tree of Life and live 
forever, which makes this Jewish God a self-confessed law-breaker of the prin- 
ciple of consistency, by contradicting with punishment, his own admission of 
a God-like act, than which there is no power of thought less consistent. 

But Adam's disobedience, to a command enjoining ignorance, is commanded 
by the Moral Law, and is an ordinance of the Supreme Being, set up in the 
human soul Native to his beings, and that demonstrates beyond all shadow 
of doubt, that this Jewish God is a fake, an imposter, and is a mere apostatiza- 
tion of th word "God," divested of all meaning, which can be construed 
as an entity. What through the Mora] Law, does the Supreme Being have to 
offer against this God? Since a pictorial Devil could do no less than issue a base 
and immoral command; in that he has prohibited man the knowledge of good 
and evil, which is the same thing as to prohibit the knowledge of right and 
wrong, all of which is a condition of moral, rational, existence upon the earth 
at all; and if such a command had issued from the Devil, its moral import could 
be no less. 



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It is an indirect command to compel ignorance, which invites and encourages 
the caprice of a tyrant, whether bearing the name God, King or Emperor, 
which is in open defiance, and disobedience of the command of the Moral Law 
to the contrary; and encourages bishops to write as is set forth, I Cor. 14:37:38, 
''If any man think himself to be spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things 
that I write are commandments of the Lord but if any man be ignorant let 
him be ignorant." 

Is any utterance of human speech fraught with less audacity; the beguiled 
imagination of this sophist is confirmed in falsehood, and would pervert all 
means of instruction. This Paul, who is the mouth-piece of christian sophistry, 
is forced to utter by the anonymous bishop, Rom. 3:7, ''For if the truth of 
God (that is the Jewish God) hath more abounded through my Lie unto his 
glory, why yet am I also, judged a sinner. " Which may well be synthetically 
applied to his imputed narrative of I Co/. 14:17:38, which states, "If any man 
think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things 
that I write are commandments of the Lord; but if any man be ignorant, let 
him be ignorant." 

This the true mirror of christian fanaticism. With St. Gregory behind the 
Canon in the scene. Like the Caliphs of Mahomet and Young of Mormonism, 
whose lust for power over the simple minded caused them to yield to decep- 
tion, until they themselves, became unable to think or act except as deceivers, 
thus becoming the insane converts like Paul, in the narrative" of their own 
lies; they come to believe the whims of their own imaginations, to be the especial 
revelation of Heaven. " And as they believe, so do their simple minded fol- 
lowers, who never investigate for themselves. 

The Supreme Being speaks through the native intuition of truth, that in 
order to gain eternal life, the human soul, must identify itself with eternal 
truths and principles, here and now, while such are within its grasp. It is 
more than manifest from the Jewish legends, that their God would deprive 
mankind of both knowledge and eternal life. The former of which is essential 
to life here and now; the later, of which would impeach the Supreme Being as 
purposeless and that hope and fear should cancel each other. 

For in order to know good and evil, that is, to possess a sufficient knowl- 
edge of good and evil, so as to relate individual thought and act, to such knowl- 
edge for self-correction its earnest acquisition is commanded by the moral law. 
However, as the legend goes, the products of the Jewish God, had to disobey a 
command, facing a threat of death to gain such knowledge, and lest this God's 
man gain eternal life, the God drives him out of Eden altogether, making it 
appear that this legendary, Biblical God, was a little afraid to let his man Adam, 
have knowledge, peradventure, he continue to remain as one of the Gods, to 
know good and evil, and for the man to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever, 
having so much knowledge at his disposal he might drive his father off the 
ranch. ^ 

So this Jewish God for absolution, passes sentence upon Adam, his clay- 
made son, to serve at hard labor for life on the frontier; and A. D. 381, Emperor 
Theodosius, and his ordained bishops from Europe, Asia and Africa, in council 



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convoked at Constantinople, with Gregory, of Nazianzus, President, ratify, 
adopt, affirm, and confirm the Jewish God, of the fable of Adam, and make 
the disobedience arising out of this fable the foundation, of Original Sin, the 
New Testament and the Christian Religion, lavishing encomiums throughout 
the New Testament upon the Jewish God's conduct with Adam, and treating 
Adam's unassailable allegiance to the command of the Moral Law, with utter 
execration and contempt. The meaning that this fable of Adam compels, as 
construed by the church, is extinction at death, and obedience even if disobedi- 
ence were to a command for utter wickedness, agrees with a known rule of 
right, and the writer is compelled to exclaim that such disobedience agreeing 
with a known rule of right, as is portrayed in the fable of Adam, made Adam as 
one of the Gods. Nevertheless, obedience is all that the feeble minds of the 
ancients could know, and disobedience must be punished, even if the execrable 
command were to wreck the entire moral universe, as set up in the human soul 
by the Supreme Being. 

Emperor Theodosius, Gregory, Martin, Ambrose, Augustine, and their 
bishop associates from Europe, Asia and Afiica, besides ratifying the inten- 
tion of the writer of the fable of Adam and Eve, that disobedience to a command 
enjoining ignorance and oppression, is sin, and besides adding to that, that the 
sin passed by inheritance to all mankind throughout the earth. 

This body of ordained bishops set aside the validity of the Jewish Gods 
decree and Adam's exile, and reinstated it with an atonement different from 
Adam's exile or the blood of bulls and goats, which atonement will be necessary 
to remove the absolute presumption of guilt, which has now become an intuitive 
inherited propensity, to disobey oppression in all men of thought throughout 
the earth. 

A Disposition to Disobey Oppression. It could never have originated 
from the Jewish God, or the writers who set him up in the Old Testament or 
those of the New Testament, who adopted, ratified and confirmed as well as 
by over sight disputed his decrees. 

It could never have originated from the Jewish God as potter, who of the 
same lump, makes some vessels unto honor, and some to dishonor, and that 
too, just to show his authority, wrath or mercy. 

''For he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he 
hardeneth. " This kind of a God, would never have had the material to make, 
or the moral purpose to have furnished the masses with a disposition through- 
out the earth to resist oppression; for that tendency you must look elsewhere. 

That is, to the Suprme Being, for the origin of this divine ordinance in the 
human soul, for its protection, preservation and perfection against desecration; 
without which the soul would be left to the mercy or caprice of just such un- 
scrupulous Gods as Adam's; and just such blood thirsty tyrants, as Theodosius, 
and his council of bishops, but the unlimited perfection of the Supreme Being, 
has fortified the human soul of mankind with the power of a positive faith in 
the Moral Law against just such desecration, without which the soul would be 
left to the mercy or caprice, of just such unscrupulous Gods as Adam's; and 
just such blood thirsty tyrants as Theodosius the Great, with his council of 



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bishops. But the unlimited perfection of the Supreme Being, has fortified the 
human soul of all with positive faith in the Moral Law, against just such dese- 
cration. 

The Christian Religion, formulated, I Cor. 15:21, ''For since by man (Adam) 
came death (in sin to the entire human race) by man (Jesus Christ) came the 
resurrection of the dead. ^' That is the redemption of those that confess Christ, 
and believe that he arose from the dead, as Rom. 10 :9. It should be no marvel 
that the said bishops, with the seal of infallibility, synthetically or artificially 
applied to their votes and writings, should have the unlimited prowess to sub- 
vert the order of life and death of the soul, as managed by the Supreme Being. 
This decree, I Cor. 15:21, ''For since by man came death, by man came also 
the resurrection of the dead. '' The anonymous bishops are the very men by 
whom came both this death and resurrection. 

To be sure the serpent prophesied to Adam and Eve, that the tree of knowl- 
edge would open their eyes, and they would be as Gods, knowing good and evil, 
and this prophecy was satisfied, fulfilled and ended, when this God himself is 
declared by the writer to have said, "Behold! the man has become as one of 
us to know good and evil. " 

Then for this God to subject Adam to punishment after his verbal admission, 
that Adam had become as one of us, meaning one of the order of Gods then 
worshipped, then for Adam at this God's hand to be treated as a law breaker, 
such conduct renders this God, a self-condemned law breaker of both the prin- 
ciple of self-consistency and the Moral Law. Which conduct furnishes a pass- 
port and license for those who wish to imitate him; thus Gods are by their 
makers, designedly given characters, that the immoral ruler can imitate, and, 
being the anointed of their God, their characters and conduct, becomes immune 
against public criticism, which in turn, becomes treason: met and defeated by 
massacre. What was being done during the centuries up to A. D. 381? Does 
any contemporary mention that Jesus Christ was an object of worship, as was 
Augustus Caesar, and Marcus Aurelius, who were both voted by the Roman 
Senate to be Gods, and objects of divine worsihp. This was out in the open. 
There was no dating back here. There was no disguise or perverted myths, 
as from Gen. 2:17, and Isa. 7:14, which founded the Christian Religion, Original 
Sin and Redemption, formulated I Cor. 15:22. There was no secret about it. 
Secular history states, that the Savior that came into existence at the council 
of Emperor Theodosius, by vote of a hundred and fifty bishops, made then and 
there a "God with us,'' which they interpret from the word "Immanuel, " 
verified of Isa. 7 : 14, and by an hypostatic union of the Virgin Mary and Holy Ghost 
one Jesus Christ, was made then and there incarnate, and was made an object 
of worship; and '"according to the scriptures was crucified," not according to 
events of history; "and all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was 
spoken of Lord by the prophet," verified Matt. 1:22:23. 

Isa. 7:14:15 to King Ahaz, B. C. 742, whose judgment compelled him to 
fear Adam's God, and serve Baalim as was customary; since Adam's God accord- 
ing to Moses, had exiled Adam for his disobedience to a command prohibiting 
the knowledge of good and evil, or to compel the indiscriminate revel in good 



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and evil, and on the other hand, had drowned the world, burnt Sodom and 
Gomorrah, as the legend goes, for acts in obedience to the Jewish God's command 
so they feared him, since for caprice, he could not be trusted, punishing for oded- 
ience and likewise disobedience to the same orders, so they Feared Him, and 
Served the particular God of the tribe, verified B. C. 678, II Kings, 17:33:41, 
''So these Nations feared the Lord (meaning the Jewish God) and served 
their graven images; (like the golden calf in Moses' absence,) both their children 
and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day 
(B. C. 678), they feared the Lord, and served their own Gods, after the manner 
of the nations, whom they carried away from them, with whom the Lord had 
made a covenant, saying, ye shall not fear other Gods, nor bow yourselves to 
them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them." But in open defiance of this 
command of this Jewish God, the very bishops who adopt him as well as his 
sayings as the God of the Christian Religion, A. D. 381, raise an object of wor- 
ship, which by Matt. 1:23, they call ''God with us," reared from the Virgin 
Mother, used and exhausted B. C. 742 to B. C. 739, in another relation by the 
context; yet in addition to being used as a rhetorical flourish or incident, for 
the elapse of time, still she is tortured eleven hundred and twenty years later 
to yield the second person in the trinity, or, God the Son, and fifty years later 
at Ephesus, to dissipate all jealousy, she is tortured to yield the first person of 
the trinity, or God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost shall not get left out, 
she is forced sixteen yeaTS later in Spain by act of council to receive the Holy 
Ghost as her grandson; notwithstanding the fact that in the year A. D. 381, 
the bishops of the church, decreed the Holy Ghost to be the Lord and Giver 
of Life and was the father of the Virgin Mary's first child, Jesus, which Holy 
Ghost, now stands confirmed the third person of the trinity, or God the Holy 
Ghost. Do you see the family ties? This is the origin of the Holy Trinity. 
Do you think for an instant that the Supreme Being belongs to the firm? I, 
for one do not. I believe with Nestorious, who was on the ground when and 
where these Gods were made, or revised and made over; and the fact is incon- 
trovertable, that all three are merely Pagan Gods from the imagination. But 
the second person of the trinity, was made to feign crucifixion, in 
flattery of the original Jewish God, or as we should say in flattery to the 
Jewish God, before his reduction to a trinity, who since may be treated as unity 
or trinity at the will of the christian, whose immoral command had been flouted 
by the Moral Law of the Supreme Being expressed through Adam's intuition 
of right, which Jewish God thus rebuked, had at the request of the bishops of the 
church sworn eternal vengeance on all of the Supreme Being's races, born or to be 
born into this world; all of which is in open deflance and in violation of this 
God's original disposition of Adam's case, and is in downright violation to his 
oath to Abraham, to bless all nations as a gift for Abraham's unfaltering obedi- 
ence; so that the second person in the trinity on the condition that mankind 
will confess him, which means an individual acknowledgment that the Jewish 
God was not in the wrong against the ordinances of the Supreme Being, and 
against his Moral Law, in the punishment of Adam for an act of virtue, when you 
positively know that this Jewish God was wrong, was immoral, was a law-breaker 



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against a law and ordinance of the Supreme Being, which openly and avowedly 
cancels his Godship forever. 

Yet to be in with the church of this imaginary trinity of Gods you delib- 
erately confess what you know to be a deliberate falsehood, which will make 
you one more victim, to multiply the ranks of, and one more suborned witness 
in mitigation of this Jewish God's eternal self-reproach; and one more soul lost 
to its own perfection; lost to the Supreme Being; for chasing after, and believ- 
ing in a Trinity, every individual of which is tortured by the church from the 
mere perverted meaning of the words, of Gen. 2:17, and Isa. 7:14, is it not 
edifying to bow the knee to such a trinity, and to such a scheme of theological 
quackery, in ©pen defiance of the Supreme Being as expressed in the human 
soul by the intuitions of truth and right, enthroned in the human soul, for the 
purpose of eliminating falsehood and wrong from human thought and act. 

But this Jewish God, is unmistakably the one that heads the Christian 
Religion, and in the New Testament in which Adam's disobedience to this 
God's base and immoral command, is treated with scorn and contempt, and 
this Jewish God's baseness, in the punishment of virtue, is flattered and ex- 
tolled, notwishtanding the fact, that his disposal of Adam, is utterly made a 
mockery of, by the addition of a Jesus as a creed, to atone for the disobedience, 
which under Him, Adam's exile cancelled, and all of the principles of the Moral 
Law, between man and the Supreme Being, are unconditionally surrendered 
and set at naught merely to furnish a passport and license for despotism, at the 
foot of this God's throne. 

And the masses for fifteen centuries, have been forced once a week to believe 
that this virtue punishing and vice protecting, Jewish God, is and stands for 
the Supreme Being, when such is absolutely and positively not the truth. 

So this body of bishops vote that one Jesus Christ, is conceived of the 
the Virgin Mary by the Holy Ghost, is crucified a sacrfice, and an atonement as 
a lamb, and without blemish upon the altar, for the remission of all mankind, 
of the exercise they make of their intuition to resist oppression; called a sin 
by the church, the New Testament, the Jewish God, and all tyrants and op- 
pressors; but on the other hand, affirmed a Virtue by those who have positive 
faith in the Moral Law. 

Now then, is any free-born citizen so lost to sense, reason, or reflection, 
that he cannot see that Disobedience to Oppresson is the price of Liberty 
for the Masses, and that a Savior to forgive this power of resistance to oppres- 
sion, as the Christian Religion teaches, and sets forth a dozen times in Romans, 
Chapter five, is in open dov/nright and positive defiance to their own God, who 
states, Isa. 43:11, ''Beside me there is no Savior, " as well as in downright mock- 
ery of free institutions for the liberation of the masses. And such can be only 
a Savior for the occasion, drafted into the ranks of oppression. And the 
service of such a Savior for a free-born citizen, can in no possible manner, be 
other than one to atone for the (sin and propensity) of virtue in resisting op- 
pression. 

And such is the self-contradictory position of free United Stater of Amer- 
ica, in the epoch of the tweniteth century, engaged in the futile attempt to 



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establish the native intuitions and integrity, of the moral rational and secular 
powers of the masses, with a text-book designed and intended as a doctrine-in- 
chief, to crush to the death those intuitions and their integrity, by instruction 
in, and the advocacy of infantile Obedience. If progress and perfecton is the 
destiny of man, future ages will Smile at a nation of free-born citizens, 
attempting to perpetuate such a bare-faced absurdity, as continued freedom 
by the use of the most radical text-book for oppression on earth: 

With the tyrannical Jewish God, in both unity and trinity, established in 
its ranks. Lessons for tyranny and oppression are of no use whatever in these 
United States, unless to warn its citizens against the snare. For nothing will 
sooner break down free institutions, than for the representatives of the masses 
to turn traitor to their interests, invited, permitted, and encouraged by the 
most Machiavelian text-book known for oppression. 

To discriminate is wisdom in action. Now then, to ascribe to a being that 
stands for the origin of space and its contents as well as the rules and regula- 
tions, governing that space and contents, to ascribe to such a being, principles 
of Oppression, or to Forge the Name of any God, that the masses might mis- 
take for the Supreme Being, as the instigator-in-chief of human Oppres- 
sion, is not a whit short of the work of tyranny, deceit and guile; and for the 
want of skill and sheer fatigue, the masses of men are the victims of this work. 

Rational man has not two natures at war with one another. Rational 
man has one nature only. The trouble is that the Christian Religion is at war 
with the moral and rational intuitions of truth and right; and until a man 
learns the value of integrity to these intuitions, truth and right, and stays 
with it, he will be fooled into the two nature sophistry. Man is endowed with 
twelve intuitive ideas or powers to be evoked and disciplined, as a guide with 
which to relate his individual thoughts, and acts, for correction. 

The laws of the Supreme Being are fixed, and a just retribution for the 
violation of them is also fixed; and all the Saviors synthetically or analytically, 
attached to the Jewish God, which the Jews, as well as their God positively 
repudiated, verified, Isa. 43:11, and all Saviors and proffers of escape from 
justice, by belief on such, are simply temporary shadows. 

The masses of men, are the growth of the universe, consequently, they 
are children of the Supreme Being, and whatever ameliorates their condition 
conforms to the laws of the Supreme Being, and is a virtue; and whatever 
enslaves the condition of the masses, violates the law of the Supreme Being and 
is a vice. 

And those men who harbor the self-flattery that this Bible holds out an 
escape for them from the open, conscious, wilful violation of any law of nature 
moral or secular that affects the downfall and degradation of the masses of men 
are simply mistaking the God of tyranny set up in Biblical, Igendary lore for 
the Supreme Being whose laws are fixed, and the just retribution for a viola- 
tion of them is also fixed and all proffers of escape are simply nugatory and 
temporary shadows. 

The dogma of salvation, verified in Rom. 10:9 by the words that ''If thou 
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart 



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that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, " that had its 
origin A. D. 381, can be no more effectual than baptism that alone constituted 
salvation under Emperor Valens A. D. 378. Either form enables a man to 
lead a life of sin and piracy against himself and the world, and, at its close, sub- 
mit to baptism and confess Jesus and believe his resurrection and be saved. 
This completes the Christian art of a sinful life and a pious death. The votaries 
of oppression are so sure that the native intuitions of truth and right has been 
totally obliterated and crushed out of the masses, and all that is left for them 
is the ability to carry arms. These votaries are so sure that the feeble minds 
of the masses are powerless to detect the true source of their imbecility and 
mental degradation that one, Emperor Theodosius, A. D. 381 called in a Coun- 
cil of his bishops from Europe, Asia, and Africa to fix up an artificial cause for 
the prevailing degradation of the masses that would serve to divert their feeble 
minds from all suspicion of their Emperor and oppressor who had already 
massacred fifteen thousand Roman citizens and the men of Antioch for resist- 
ing double tax. So the idea struck the said bishops that the story of Adam and 
Eve would be exactly in point, and would admirably serve the purpose. Adam 
had been sentenced to hard labor for life for disobedience to a command that 
he should reject knowledge, and Gregory saw that obedience and ignorance went 
hand in hand together, and this fable treated both disobedience and knowledge 
a sin for Adam and this furnished a passport to close the schools of the Empire 
which followed, and by a fiction of doctrine, their Emperor could use this as a 
make-shift for the degradation of his subjects, that the misery, in place of coming 
directly from the throne, originates from an inherited tendency to disobey 
commands for ignorance and oppression or immoral commands delivered by a 
God, King, or ruler enjoining ignorance which one hundred and fifty bishops 
designate original sin, total depravity, and the fall of man. But, what would 
happen if this inherited tendency to disobey oppression or an immoral com- 
mand for perpetual ignorance was an ordinance of the Supreme Being, residing 
in the human soul as a guide and guard against its desecration by the tyrant, 
usurper, and oppression? It would happen that all followers of such Gods or 
religions and the Christian Religion, is no exception, whose cry is against this 
ordinance of the Supreme Being, are in the ranks of the Jewish God or Trinity, 
oppression, deceit and guile, and are in direct and positive antagonism to the 
Moral Law of the Supreme Being. These one hundred and fifty ordained bishops 
ratified, affirmed, and confirmed despite the nature of the command from a 
moral standpoint that Adam's disobedience was sin, as is verified in a dozen 
verses in the book of Romans, chapter five, similar to the one which reads, 
''For as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedi- 
ence of one, shall many be made righteous. " And they ratified and confirmed 
the idea that Adam's gained knowledge was of no advantage to him, verified 
I Cor. 14:38, by the words, ''But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. " 
These one hundred and fifty ordained bishops reject the removal of sin by the 
blood of bulls and goats which is verified Heb. 10:4: "For, it is not possible 
that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. " These anonymous 
bishops decreed that the sin of Adam for disobedience to a command forbidding 



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him to gain knowledge of good and evil so that Adam might relate his acts to 
such; passed to all mankind throughout the earth forever' to be born thereafter, 
that is the sinful tendency to resist oppression, which is verified Ram. 5:12, 
*' Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the woild, and death by sin, and so 
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " These anonymous bish- 
ops decreed that the sin of Adam's disobedience to the demands of oppression 
was a propensity inherited by all men, and that Jesus Christ, as a "lamb with- 
out blemish, "was a propitiation and an atonement forgiving this sin or propen- 
sity which originated in Adam, and passed thence upon all men which is veri- 
fied Rom. 5:19, ^'For, as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, 
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous, " which is verified also 
I Cor. 15:22, 'Tor, as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 
And I Cor. 15:3: ''Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures," and, 
to fulfill the scriptures. Can any man fail to detect this work of guile and im- 
posture? From the statement dated A. D. 30, John 1:45, When Philip saith to 
Nathaniel, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets 
have written, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. " Who is also the Son of 
the Holy Ghost, Matt. 1:18, and John 1:41, Andrew saith unto Simon A. D. 30, 
''We have found the Messiah which is, being interpreted, the Christ. So you 
see Andrew could interpret. Is it sense or reason if any of the miracles ascribed 
to this hero had ever taken place out in the open, or anywhere but on the pages 
of fiction that this hero would be first discovered by Philip and Andrew, A. D. 
30, being then, according to Luke, thirty-five years old, and Matthew thirty-four. 
And, if he was worshipped in public as described in the fiction from infancy to his 
ascension, he would have been known from Spain to Egypt; throughout the 
empire as was Caesar and Aurelius when made objects of divine worships. 
But the votes of one hundied and fifty bishops attributing Divine worship, A. D. 
381, upon the hero of the drama of the New Testament with its scenes laid be- 
giiming about four hundred years antedating its origin set fxom 6 B. C. to 96 
A. D leaving a hiatus of 285 years from the time when the scenes end in the 
drama A. D. 96, to the time that the anonymous bishops wrote the drama not 
earlier than A. D. 381, so that during the period from 6 B. C. to A. D. 381, 
all the narrated exploits of the Savior, and all that existed of the Christian 
Religion, except baptism, which produced a change of heart in the dead as 
well as the living; as is authentically narrated in secular history, was the mere 
figment of fancy and imagination, and the filling of the hiatus, of the three hun- 
dred and eighty-seven years to which the dating back process in the laying of 
scenes, gave rise. 

So that the mind of the Christian who believes these fictions, and the 
narrated characters and incidents used, as Gods, men, and events had not so 
much as a shadow of fiction upon which to stay their faith. 

He has only human fancy, scouring the region of the past tense, directed 
by the art and imaginary skill of the author. So that narrated incidents of 
divine worship believed by the Christian from his New Testament to have been 
lavished upon the Savior, during his use in the scenes of the drama from 6 B. C. 
to 33 A. D., and during the hiatus, from 33 A. D. to 381, A. D., when all the 



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dogmas-in-chief of the Christian Religion had their origin; has absolutely 
nothing whatever for its support, by the writers themselves of the New Testa- 
ment, but the revel of human fancy over a period of time, to which the 
dating back process gave rise; and the dramatic incidents used in the scenes, 
which the christian believes as events, which had any of them been true, or 
transpired according to the fables narrated, a miracle would have been neces- 
sary, since from the dates of the scenes their oblivion was nearly four centuries 
beyond the personal knowledge of any writer who took part in its production. 

So that the immaculate conception, birth, life, crucifixion, death, resurrec- 
tion, ascension and seat, of God the Son, on the throne beside the Jewish God, 
which believers ascribe to the time from 6 B. C. to 33 A. D., inclusive, has no 
better foundation by, for, or from the narrators, themselves, than creative fancy, 
as you should write a letter to a friend to-day, and date it back four hundred 
years, its contents during that period is mere fancy, arising from the artifice 
of ante-dating; and your correspondent in matter of date, is merely in possession 
of the fancy of the fanciful, covering the period indicated. So likewise, with 
the scriptures, whose dogmas had their origin except baptism not earlier than 
A. D. 381, but are set down in the context by the art of ante-dating, as if to 
cover the period from 6 B. C. to 96 A. D., by the dates on its pages; and since 
the dogmas were originated A. D. 381, the hiatus from 6 B. C. to A. D. 381, of 
the scenes and characters narrated in the New Testament, can furnish its be- 
lievers with a mere fancy of the fanciful. 

Now then, unless oppression actual or dogmatic, has crushed every vestige 
of insight out of a man, it is more than manifest that the entire scheme of Orig- 
inal Sin, as the source of human depravity, as narrated in Rom. 5:12, is the 
work of Emperor Theodosius and his council of bishops from Europe, Asia 
and Africa, convoked for the purpose of guiding the minds of the masses 
away from the throne of the oppressor, whose sole disposition was given to revel 
in power and afluence, as is verified by his massacre of Antioch. 

The entire New Testament is the work of that Emperor, his bishops and 
the maudlin, servile, crawling, humility of the Ninevite, with seventy times seven, 
as the rule of forbearance as a standard between each other, and absolution 
in Advance are the terms of Redemption by the church. But the votaries 
of oppression claim that the Jewish God, which they borrowed of the Jews for 
the express purpose of apprising the masses that disobedience was an offense 
to the majesty of any object of authority, however wayward the command, 
however its baseness, should paralyze the tongue of the author with self-re- 
proach. And among the Mohammedans, Christians, and Jews, according to 
the disposition of the age, this Jewish God, either in trinity, unity, or both, 
has yet a long time to serve. 

But be it know^n that the Supreme Being is a discovery that cannot be 
borrowed or loaned; or captured in war and confined to the house of the God 
Dagon. The Supreme Being or his laws, can at best, only be discovered; that 
they may be used to escape the errors of ignorance, and all rights between 
the Supreme Being and man are equal. 

There are no especial privileges that run in the interest of the few or many. 



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He never exhibits the immoral, capricious, arbitrary will ascribed to the Jewish 
God, with man as a mere target for his mercy, as instanced In the formula, 
''For God hath concluded all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all," 
or that other christian phrase, ''He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, 
and whom he will, he hardeneth. " Every nation on earth, are sharers of his 
products, whether conscious of the fact or not; and every rational human being 
of intelligence on earth is furnished with nine faculties, and twelve regulative 
ideas, whose voice, when evoked and educated, are infallible for the purpose of 
interpreting all things into the language of the soul: To-wit, number, time, 
space, cause, resemblance, harmony, infinity, mind, matter, existence, right and 
truth. 

Such when evoked into consciousness, by drill and education, are the sure 
sentinels which the principle of evolution has furnished the race to await the 
grasp of every human soul, as standards with which for thought, all things may 
be tried. 

Now this is the work of the Supreme Being, but you must be made aware 
that kings, despots, tyrants and emperors, have time out of mind, invented their 
own Gods and Bibles, or adopted the ones that some other tyrant was using, 
who frowns upon a knowledge of good and evil by the masses, as the tieat- 
ment of the Ninevites by the Jewish God demonstrates, and Christendom 
is no exception to the rule, and for a God or doctrine is in no manner in advance 
of the Mohammedan. 

It has adopted the God that kings and rulers were using with which to 
terrify the Jewish subjects, as witnessed by the words; ''They feared the Lord 
and served their images." 

When the adoption was made, Christendom was governed by a man known 
as Empeior Theodosius, whose councils were composed of bishops of the church 
of baptism alone in Europe, Asia and Africa. These bishops with some modi- 
fications adopted the God of the Jews; and that no mistake may be made, that 
such is the truth, is exemplified by the encomiums lavished upon him throughout 
the New Testament, for his treatment of Adam and Eve. 

Be it fable, myth, fiction, or inspired history, the characteristics of this 
God, as there portrayed, are the ones, which actuated his bishops in the adop- 
tion of the Jewish God, for the Christian Religion and to be the God of the 
New Testament, verified a dozen times in Romans, chapter five, wherein 
Original Sin, under the dynasty of the Jewish God, and redemption aie synthe- 
tically united. 

This gentry modified some of this God's designs or methods for the removal 
of sin; for instance, the blood of bulls and goats, would no longer take them away 
from the masses, verified Heb. 10:4:11. 

The Book of Hebrews, being made canonical, not earlier than A. D. 397; 
(Since it is admitted that St. Jerome, procured the book A. D. 397, of a Nazerene 
of Berea.) who was undoubtedly a bishop of no slight achievement in the art 
of Original Sin. They adopted the ignorance that this God threatened Adam 
to maintain, verified I Cor. 14:38. "If any man be ignorant, let him be ignor- 
ant. " Not being satisfied with the way that this adopted God, carried out his 



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threat of death for Adam's sin in the attempt to gain knowledge sufficient to 
distinguish good from evil; from the fact that Adam was permitted to live as a 
farmer on the frontier, and grow a family after the age of one year. 

This gentry, a little better up in the use of letters than the scribes that 
fashioned the Jewish God in the Pentateuch, and having a more subtle tyrant 
to make secure on his throne, and a less ignorant populace to deal with, they 
thought best to prime this God up some, and to meet the exigences of the case : 
they set aside the Jewish God's mistake in changing or commuting his original 
threat of death to expulsion from Eden, they re-open the case and give Adam 
in his absence a new trial; and decide that the Jewish God was wrong, and that 
his reporter was wrong, in saying that Adam was expelled from Eden at all, 
and that the death referred to by the Jewish God, was mere metaphor; and that 
Adam, merely died in sin the day he gained the knowledge of good and evil; 
all of which is a positive peroration of the narrative itself, and that this is the 
true construction put upon the fable by the church, is evidenced by its formula, 
I Cor. 15:22, by the words: ''For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ, shall all 
be m.ade alive. " 

All of which is in downright defiance, overthrow and utter mockery of 
Adam's exile for absolution as decreed by the Jewish God. Said the bishops, 
since the masses are getting unruly, they surmise that their degradation comes 
from the tyranny, oppression and despotism, of Theodosius, their Emperor, 
who had already massacred fifteen thousand Roman citizens, and the inhabi- 
tants of Antioch. 

St. Gregory, of Nazianzus, saw that something must be done at once to 
avert the mind of the masses from the throne of their Emperor, as the cause of 
their degradation; and satisfy them that their present trouble originated else- 
where; so it is pointed out to them that this Jewish God, punished Adam for 
disobedience in gaining knowledge and sentenced him to hard labor for life, 
as a penalty for absolution, coupled with the woeful forfeit of eternal life under 
the dominion of the Jewish God, now their God, which would otherwise have 
been a life of ease and eternal enjoj^ment, and the bishop founders of our Holy 
Religion, conclude for mankind that the sin of this disobedience or the woeful 
forfeit of eternal life, passed upon all mankind and like hardship as well; and 
the only way out of the difficulty, shall be to put up a sacrifice, that shall utterly 
telescope the notion of Adam's exile, or the blood of bulls and goats and as before 
narrated they shall rear such a sacrifice by an interpretation, and the apostatiza- 
tion of the word ''Immanuel, " which they termed. Matt. 1:23, ''God with us" 
and which they offer as a sacrifice for the redemption of the world from the 
forfeiture by Adam of eternal life. 

All of which is unmistakably verified, Rom. 5:12:19, "Wherefore as by 
one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all 
men, for that all have sinned; for as by one man's disobedience many were made 
sinners; so by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous. " And I Cor. 
15:22, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

Thus, this adopted God, and his conduct with Adam, met every exigency 
that it was intended to meet; it gave ignorance a sanction, from the command of 



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a God, and knowledge of good and evil to which individual thought and act, 
may be referred and regulated, the chastisement of a God; in othei words, it gave 
an authoritative origin for human degradation, that the ignorant masses pre- 
ferred to acknowledge rather than to lose their heads by following the example 
of the men of Antioch ; which furnished the masses with a plausible excuse for 
its cowardice, which under their Emperor's despotic rule, was becoming unbear- 
able by the cowards themselves. 

Thus, have the masses of Christendom for fifteen centuries, been pointed to 
the fable of Adam and Eve, as the unmistakable source of their sin and degra- 
dation, when if they had examiined for themselves, or considered the purpose 
of tyrants even, they might have gotten their eyes open also. For Eve, Adam 
and the serpent, were talking about knowledge. The serpent said, it would 
open their eyes. Did the Jewish God say as much for their welfare. He did 
behind their backs. If the masses should look a little into the nature of the 
despotism of this imaginary God, they would not be so eager to claim, support, 
and advertise him. 

And if the votaries of oppression fail to erect a monument to the fame of 
St. Gregory for the invention of Original Sin, and for the adoption of the Jewish 
God for the benefit of oppression, it is simply because oppression don't know its 
hardest worker to make its caprice perpetual. 

Oppression may thank St. Gregory and St. Jerome for the New Testament, 
than which no document on earth can over-reach its Machiavelian cunning, as a 
text-book, which is verified. Matt. 18:22:34:35, and Rom. 5:12:and 10:9. 
When Emperor Theodosius and his bishops drafted to a man into his ranks 
with the motto, ''Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it," 
verified I Cor. 14:37:38, ''If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, 
let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are commandments 
of the Lord, but if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. " 

This is a perfect illustration of the chronic whim or stalest trick of the 
sophist, who believes Heaven is on the side of charlatan deception, and still 
chiistianity tries to claim in defiance of the suppression of the public schools 
for two hundred and fifty years following its advent, A. D. 381, and still in 
defiance of this historic truth, she puts up a claim that the public schools are 
indebted to her, when she wishes to look like the innocent flower. 

But Christianity has written and is still writing in every Bible she prints 
over her own signature, the maxim, "If any man be ignorant, let him be ignor- 
ant." If an Adam distinguish between good and evil: sentence him to both 
death and hard labor for life, and libel the entire human race as his descendants, 
with the falsehood that they are dead in sin against this God ; mistaken by the 
masses for the Supreme Being, and applaud the God that did it, is a Bible 
maxim from beginning to end; and a maxim once a week for the church-going 
masses lest they learn and know enough to inherit eternal life and with the weapon 
of the Moral Law, shake us Gods of oppression from our very throne. This is 
the serpent of Christianity under the flower. 

Another flower of Emperor Theodosius, who stabbed fifteen thousand 
Romans at Thessalonica and tortured the men of Antioch for resisting double 



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tax; the beginning of conduct and misrule which later made thirty-six thousand 
cities and villages the possible adherents to the Caliphs of Mahomet. 

Another innocent flower from the lips of their Jesus, ''If a man smite you 
on one cheek turn to him the other; if he take your coat in a suit at law, give him 
your cloak also. " This like the rule of seventy times seven, is for the instruc- 
tion of the masses in dealing with each other. But if the masses resist oppression 
or even ask for a reconsideration of imposed hardship, stab them to the heart, 
death by torture as was the case with the men of Antioch, whose intuition of 
right, cried against the doubling of their tax. 

Death by the bullet, as was the case of the Colonies of America, A. D. 1176, 
for the same reason, excessive tax. What silenced the lips of the innocent 
Jesus from railing at his tyrant Theodosius, and his court for their dastardly 
conduct through the New Testament with Adam's virtue, which virtue was the 
voice and ordinance of the Supreme Being. Do you ask what sealed his lips? 
Why he was in the employ of his Emperor; posing as an object of redemption 
and an atonement for Adam's virtue, which the christian admits, when he 
acknowledges Christ, that Adam's sin, which the judgment, sentence and execu- 
tion of the Jewish God was powerless to absolve, which also throughout its 
pages, the New Testament and Christian Religion positively treats in behalf 
of oppression, as sin. 

Does this doctrine comport with the rule of forgiveness, seventy times 
seven? This God of Adam passes sentence upon him for an act of virtue by 
every principle of human of conduct related for sanction to the Moral Law. 
The Disobedience of an Immoral Command, threatened with death before 
this Adam was a year old, and the first offense, against the Jewish 
God AT THAT. Does this God in unity use the seventy times seven rule of for- 
bearance, enjoined by his counterpart in trinity on fellow subjects. Even if 
this God did make the unconscionable mistake in treating virtue as vice, for 
which he should have asked Eve's forgiveness as well as Adam's; proving him- 
self less moral as well as less wise than the serpent himself, for which miscon- 
duct, this God by the quill of his inventor was forced to exclaim, Adam ''has 
become as one of us to know good and evil;" but like an ignorant man, that 
hath commanded his son to do wrong, unwitingiy, still, lacking the moral 
courage to acknowledge his mistake, goes right on, and irrationally punishes 
for the mere disobedience, in order to vindicate his authority of command; and 
this accounts for the irrational conduct of many a parent, which causes the 
breaking up of the home. 

But this writer of Adam's God stuck to it as sin all right, and the christian 
fathers confirmed him in it, and went him one better, that is to say, they con- 
firmed the sin, not only in Adam, but made it a sin which all men must bear; 
that is, the virtue of Adam, is by the church designated sin, turning topsy- 
turvy every sense of deference for the Moral Law, native to man, as is verified 
Rom. 5:19, "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by 
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." 

That is, b}^ an unjustifiable surrender, to the death of the cross, the assent 
of which both incriminates the victim and his follower; also I Cor. 15:22, "For 



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as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " Thus, beyond all 
question, the New Testament has adopted the complete despotism of the 
Pentateuch; and that despotism has gone to such a pass under the reign of 
Theodosius, and his council of bishops that the humiliated suppliant of oppres- 
sion must be forgiven in Advance of any overt act for the bear inherited tend- 
ency to disobey oppression, which tendency, being a manifestation or voice of 
the Supreme Being in the human soul, when listened to and obeyed, becomes 
a virtue of the highest merit under the command of the Moral Law. 

But is condemned by the church in the employ of the tyrant as Original 
Sin; and not only so, but Emperor Theodosius, and the court of his bishops 
called in from Europe, Asia and Africa, decreed that Adam's disobedience was 
an affront to the majesty of the Jewish God, totally regardless of Adam's age, 
and the desecration of the Moral Law. 

With them, obedience is obedience, and it is of preeminent consideration in 
realms of despotism, even if the command contradict any or every known rule 
of right, truth and justice; even if the command compel perpetual ignorance, 
crime and human slaughter. 

Obedience at all cost, constitutes the piety of primitive races, such as are 
depicted, as subjects to the Jewish God, in the Holy scriptures, comprising 
both Old and New Testament, and such being its fundamental doctrine, it is 
indifferent what moral, ethical, intuitive, self-evident or axiomatic truth, the 
command contradicts, obedience like the authority of command in army dis- 
cipline, is the only piety, disobedience is the only sin, verified Rom. 5:19:12 
''For as by one man's disobedience (to a command which is an invitation to 
caprice and oppression) many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one 
shall many be made righteous," that is, by the victim of obedience or his sur- 
render to the ''death of the cross," to fulfil scripture, which is indefensible 
homicide, "shall many be made righteous." 

Think of it, also "Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world 
and death by sin; so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." 
Adam's disobedience was in agreement with the ethical principles, truth, justice 
and right, for knowledge of good and evil to which individual concrete, thought 
and act for correction, must be referred in choosing the good and refusing the 
evil, which is an intuitive necessity for all free beings, in the intellectual, moral, 
as well as the physical world; and any command by a God or writer in his 
behalf, contradicting this intuitive necessity, whose name is forged to back the 
contradiction that such a God might be mistaken by the masses, for the Supreme 
Being in order to give currency and emphasis to such imposition is nothing 
short of the work of guile. If Adam was capable of sin, during his first year, 
he must have been capable of the knowledge of good and evil; and if capable of 
such knowledge, a command prohibiting it would be a command enjoining 
complete idiocy. 

Now then it is more than manifest that infantile obedience is the dogma 
that Christianity rests upon as displayed in the saying, "For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made alive, " which should read "For as in Christ 
all die, even so in Adam shall all be made alive, " which latter according to the 



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context is in positive accordance with the command of the Moral Law. Why 
so? assent to crucifixion by accepting rewards on that condition is in itself 
Spirtual death. Thus it is more than manifest that Christ's indefensible 
surrender to the ''death of the cross" and that in Adam for obedience to his 
intuition of right, is developed a principle of life and well-being, so that in the 
dogma that ''in Adam all die/' is false; and the dogma that "in Adam all die, " 
is one horn of the dilema; and it being crushed, by the law of contradiction, to 
the Moral Law, and absurdity to rational thought, the other horn of the dilema 
in "Christ shall all be made alive" falls to absurdity by the same rule, Matt. 
28:19, which states, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in 
the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, " is a command 
uttered on the supposition that all nations are sinners through Adam's disobed- 
ience. 

But since the dogma of Adam's disobedience, to an immoral Command, 
issued from a counterfeit God, disobedience under the circumstances, is obedi- 
ence to the Moral Law; and since obedience to the Moral Law, conforms to an 
ordinance of the Supreme Being, and is of universal and eternal application; 
and since the Trinity of the church, which is the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 
together with the New Testament, their inspired ledger have all taken sides 
against Adam and the MoralLaw of the Supreme Being, with, and by which as 
an ethical principle, Adam stands identified. It follows that all of the dogmas 
of oppression that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are identified with, and all 
their promises covenants and so on, that run with their Promised Land, are in 
positive opposition to the Supreme Being, and such would in the language of 
of God the Son, make their followers or Proselytes at least two-fold more the 
children of Hell than their necromancers. 

Consequently, this order b}^ the mouth of the second person of the Trinity, 
of Matt. 28:19, saying with no lack of arrogance and pretension, "Go ye there- 
fore and teach all nations, baptizing them, in the name of the Father, and of the 
Son (meaning himself) and of the Holy Ghost," (meaning his own father); 
all of which means by acts of council; which decrees for the church, and its 
venerable trinity, the creation of their own votes, and furnished with a mother 
or grandmother, even in defiance of the fact, that such Gods and mothers were 
heretically opposed by Nestorious patriarch of Constantinople, as being in 
"Justification of the folly of the Pagans. " Who created their Gods and gave 
them mothers, but as the votes of the said bishops gave the Father and Son 
the Virgin Mary for a mother, and gave the Holy Ghost the same virgin for a 
grandmother by act of the council in Spain, A. D. 447, whose votes 66 years 
previous, had given this same Holy Ghost a son by his own grandmother, veri- 
fied Matt. 1 :18, whose votes used the Virgin Mary from a mere rhetorical flourish 
used by the Jewish God, B. C. 742, to indicate a time relation, when the fear 
of King Ahaz of Judah should vanish, by the separation of the provinces: 
Syria and Israel, from their kings, who were respectively Rezin and Pekah, who 
had threatened to dethrone and supplant King Ahaz. 

Notwithstanding the fact this sign or flourish of rhetoric had been exhausted 
for eleven hundred and twenty years or within the three years for which it 



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originated, in the context. Yet the founders of our Holy Religion, by the 
providence of their mother furnished God which their votes had confined to 
one-third of the spiritual business in the partnership trinity, have found that 
the words ''Virgin" and ''Immanuel" are sufficient material upon which to 
rear an object for the doctrinal redemption of the world. 

Yet despotism the Christian Religion, the fable of Adam, and the relation 
to his God, the New Testament, each and all prefer to keep at least one-third 
of the Jewish God, as a Savior and one-third or God the Father to head the 
firm. Notwithstanding the fiction, that God the Son, immerged from parentage 
fifty years earlier than God the Father, which by right of primogeniture, entitles 
God the Son to head the firm; but the bishops decided otherwise. 

Now then in face of the proofs of the origin of these inferior Gods, the 
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, any person that is capable of rational intelligence 
and can use his intuition of right at all even outside his especial employment 
that further stultifies himself or helps to stultify his offspring with the false 
opinion that this work of despotism and these Gods of despotism, which only 
show their power by the use of fables contradicting the ordinances and regular 
working order of the Supreme Being, such person is simply bringing upon his 
own soul distraction of function and faculty, and is attempting to pass it along 
to his offspring. So, all that is left when rightly understood, is the immoral 
relation that a fable writer sets up as a standard between the oppressor and 
the oppressed. The oppressor commands and threatens, forbidding its sub- 
jects to achieve knowledge, and, when they gain some knowledge of good and 
evil, lest they eat of the tree of life and live forever, oppression sentences it& 
subjects to hard labor for life. The moral is, freedom, knowledge, wisdom, 
and eternal life for the masses must be achieved in spite of the threats of des- 
potism and oppression, to the contrary and you are done. 

What is Christianity that has held the attention and has used as its Proselytes 
a small fraction of mankind for fifteen centuries? Where did it originate, by 
whom did it originate, and for what purpose did it originate? Christianity 
arising from the dogmas of Original Sin and Redemption, formulated I Cor. 
15:22, originated A. D. 381 at Constatinople by a Council of one hundred and 
fifty bishops from Europe, Asia, and Africa, convoked by Emperor Theodosius 
the Great. For no other purpose than to furnish the masses with the delusion 
that the disobedience of Adam was the unquestionable source of their misery 
or the impoverished condition which ages of devastating wars had brought to 
pass from which, nothing short of baptism since the period of A. D. 381 in the 
name of God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, could extri- 
cate them, verified Matt 28:19, by the words from the mouth of the character, 
Jesus, saying ''Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the 
NAME of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, " a firm, the junior 
member of which, was accorded by act of Council A. D. 381 the attribute of 
worship, the Holy Ghost for a father, and King Ahaz's apostatized Virgin for a 
mother, verified Matt. 1 : 18:23. A firm, the senior member of which was accord- 
ed by act of Council A. D. 431 King Ahaz's apostatized Virgin for a mother 
also. A firm, the sophomore member of which was accorded by act of Council 



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A. D. 381 the attribute of worship, and A. D. 447 King Ahaz's Virgin for a 
grandmother. That is he then proceeded from the Father and Son, which 
would make their mother his grandmother. Do you see how nicely this 
spiritual pedigree is arranged. Did the original maker of Adam's God as depict- 
ed in Genesis think for one m^oment that his man, Adam, and woman, Eve, 
were, before one year old, according to the text, superior in moral principle to 
the God that served as potter to mould the clay into Adam, or the God that per- 
formed the surgical operation upon Adam in order to originate h^s partner Eve. 
But, for this God to prohibit man the knowledge of good and evil, then for him 
to adm_it that such knowledge had made Adam ''as one of us," then to punish 
Adam for becoming ''as one of us," or Godlike is a self-condemning admission 
of a law-breaker, himself, and by such inordinate obedience would punish Adam 
to make him a beter being if so be than his God, for, in respect to good and 
evil, he is admitted by the mouth of this God to be equ il before punishment, 
and, unless punishment is to be an advantage, it is irrational. Now then this 
God which punishes virtue with no other purpose than to vindicate his authoiity 
is fashioned after the order of a chief of some savage tribe whose maxim is 
that ignorance is the mother of devotion. So he prohibits the knowledge of 
good and evil, and sets up a flaming sword which turns every way between man 
and his aspiration of eternal life, which is the aspiration and voice in his soul 
of the Supreme Being. Without which for moral rational intelligence his handi- 
work would lack a purpose. However such a God or writer who sets him up 
knows less about man, than the utter consternation of a hen oh seeing for the 
first time her brood of ducklings take to the water. A writer of Bibles that 
uses his Gods, in the immoral relations essential to despotism can have posi- 
tively no conception whatever of the human intuition of right or the commands 
of the moral law. Must rationality wait for and resort to races that are not 
Christian for a text book on the intuitive ideas one of which is the principle of 
right, the same as it has been compelled to do on the intuition of number? 
Can Christendom boast of no peei in the art of mechanical invention, and fall 
back upon the wayward conduct of the Gods, and men who set them up, who 
had their origin in epochs when primitive savages belted the globe? Unless 
mankind which is now crossing the dessert from a life of instinct pure and simple 
to a life of rational intelligence directed by the Moral Law, can be made to 
grasp firmly the principles of right and truth by means of discipline and 
DRILL and make them yield him protection, preservation and perfection, his 
progress is at an end, and perish he must upon the sands of burning error. 
What must becom.e a matter of course in human life is an ever present avail- 
able POWER to employ the intuitive ideas and in an especial manner, those of 
truth and right, throughout the entire domain of thought and act 

The dogmas of Original Sin and redemption that set at naught the legiti- 
mate operation of truth and right, supplanting it with a dogma for senseless 
obedience inflicts every faculty and intuition of the mind, with stupifying blight. 

In order that the intuition of truth and right, and a positive faith in the 
behest of the Moral Law, may reign in the soul all dogmas to the contrary should 
be wholly dropped, and treated as nothing more significant than a scheme to 



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make permanent the wiles of oppression. For rational free beings the perpetual 
use of the intuitions, of truth and right, are absolutely and positively indis- 
pensible. 

The writer of the Book of Genesis has attempted to rear a God for tyranny 
at the expense of the weapon of the Moral Law, established in man by the Su- 
preme Being, for his protection, preservation and perfection against the possi- 
bility of his soul's desecration, and what makes the subject interesting is to 
behold the struggle that the anonymous writers of the New Testament are 
forced to put up, when they attempt to establish by the use of an imaginary 
God to help them, an immoral command upon a human being less than a year 
old, that wields the weapon of the Moral Law, and with it utterly puts to rout 
this God and his elder brother, God the Son, and their man Friday, the Holy 
Ghost. 

But this entire combination, cannot phase virtue one iota. 

Adam is with the Supreme Being, is with his Moral Law, and even if he is a 
product of fiction and is playing his part before a year old, he stands for a prin- 
ciple in the display of character that the entire curriculum of Bible Gods 
Saviors, and inspired bishops thrown in are powerless to shake. He stands for 
knowledge of good and evil, which is an equipment for the guidance of thought 
and act as well as the substance, for truth and right to work with; which means 
to distinguish the good from the evil, a necessary condition to an intelligent 
choice; and it is irrational to even think that there are any exceptions to the 
moral order of the world, running in favor of Bibles, inferior Gods, despots or 
Emperors. 

But, behold! the profundity of this Biblical inspired wisdom. Adam is 
prohibited knowledge on threat of death that must be understood and known 
about even to be disobeyed. Forbidden knowledge that he must consciously 
achieve whether he obeys or disobey; for he must have some idea of good and 
evil to know what the command means. 

Thus, this soap-bubble of clerical nonsense, won't bear its own expression 
in words; not only so but Adam is prohibited knowledge on threat of death 
that must be understood even to be disobeyed. Adam is prohibited knowl- 
edge when achieved that made him God-like on the admission of the Jewish 
God, himself the acknowledged utterer of the command. 

Thus the God that this writer has set up, and is adopted by the Christian 
Religion, and is believed in by its Proselytes is a product of a most wayward 
human fancy, and as characters under license of mere fiction, his man Adam 
or Eve can only be thought rational, moral or virtuous by disobedience. What 
part of speech the word ''God" in the writer's estimation, stands for, unless it 
be the ''noun, " Devil, falsehood or utter enemy of mankind, is hard to compre- 
hend. 

Prohibiting knowledge of good and evil, and cutting down the aspiration of 
eternal life, which leaves the work of the Supreme Being without a purpose, no 
one but a positive nihilist could conceive. 

The writer would indicate that this God had some knowledge of pottery, 
for the writer has his man Adam made of clay ; and Eve is the result of hypnosis 



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and a surgical operation upon Adam, which has ever since written, been a per- 
petual reference for a slight or debasement in the subjection of woman, as set 
forth by the mouth of Paul, I Tim. 2:11:12:14, ''Let woman learn in silence 
with all subjection (unlimited despotism from the throne to man, and from man 
to woman). But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the 
man, but to be in silence, " that is, if any woman aspire to wisdom, she shall not 
teach; and here is the reason for it: "For Adam was first formed, then Eve, 
and Adam was not deceived, but the Woman being Deceived, was in the 
Transgression." But the attempt of these anonymous bishops, by the 
mouth of Paul, the tent-maker, to throw down woman, with this double dose 
of despotism, first, from her ruler, then from her husband, has utterly over- 
thrown the Christian Religion of their own make, expressed by the words: 
'Tor as in Adam all die, even so in Christ, shall all be made alive," verified 
I Cor. 15:22, which is the narrative of this same witness Paul, I Tim. 2:14, who 
charges the transgression to Eve alone, contradicting the very existence of 
Christ, since his existence, advent and misson, all, are conditioned on Adam's 
being the Original Sinner. However, this writer of Geneiss made Adam live 
in exile from Eden nine bundled and twenty-nine years, in order to expiate 
his disobedience which of necessity must annul any further sacrifices under the 
Jewish God at least for Adam's act. 

But nine hundred and twenty-nine years to one of us, of three score and 
ten, would seem a long sentence, but nine hund/ed and twenty-nine years, is 
more easily written than lived by beings of flesh and blood; but the maxim that 
nothing is too hard for the Lord, or Jewish God, in unity or trinity, nothing 
should be allowed to way-la}^ our feeble mind in believing about them, how ever 
numerous the cases of the immoral, absurd, impossible, or wrong and falsehood, 
is affirm.ed right and truth. 

Now then, what makes this fable of Adam and his God significant, is the 
fact that the relation set up between them is the standard morality on which 
the New Testament and its Christian Religion is founded. 

Instead of the Supreme Being of Seneca, of Rome, of Sociates of Greece, 
Buddah of India, Confucius of China, which is the Supreme Ruler of universe, 
arising from the power of reason by intelligence and its use of inference; the ' 
anonymous bishops, who write the New Testament, borrow of the Jews, their 
God as reared from the imagination of the writer of the Pentateuch, whose 
immoral debasement is depicted in the fable of Adam and Eve by the command 
prohibitmg the knowledge of good and evil, which knowledge is absolutely 
com.manded by the intuition of right, which knowledge is absolutely commanded 
by the Moral Law of the Supreme Being. But let us turn our attention to the 
legendary condition of Adam, since whether fable, fiction or inspired history, 
the relation set up between Adam and his God, has been by Christendom, adopt- 
ed as its standard of christian morality or religion, multiplied over and over 
again in the New Testament by formulas like, I Cor. 15:22, saying, "For as in 
Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive," but if Adam and his 
God, never existed at all, the exploits ascribed to them are mere fable or fiction. 

But for a moment as a picture from the fable, was Adam in the Garden of 



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Eden, like the christian, serving time under a mere fanciful God, better off than 
on the actual frontier, obeying his native intuitions and bringing his powers into 
use that are the gifts of the Supreme Being, even though the narrator has pic- 
tured Adam's life in exile from Eden, as one of hardship and disgrace, a lesson 
by a courtier of the throne against the life of a producer; and an employment 
which the writer for his ruler's court, looks upon as menial, plebian and with 
utter contempt, and right here crops out the fact that instead of the New Testa- 
ment's being the work of seamen, it is the work of an Emperor's courtiers, with 
seamen, shark-drivers and tent-makers used at cat's-paws to handle the coals. 
However, I should rather labor in the realm of the Supreme Being, where secu- 
lar and moral integrity is the standard of human perfection than be a courtier 
at the throne of Adam's fanciful God, or like the christian's Savior, sit at his 
right hand, who deigns not to punish virtue and protect crime with seven- 
fold vengeance, or even be seated beside his throne as is the pictorial Jesus, for 
services rendered in the absolution of an original sin already expiated by 
Adam's exile; or even though the Original Sin and penance was mere fanciful. 

If I was going to suffer martyrdom for Sin even, first, I should want to be 
sure that the act of disobedience was a sin, not a virtue ; next, I should want to 
take it first-hand; not after an Adam had already by exile, defeated its signifi- 
cance. But the story of Adam and Eve which the christian believes and teaches 
as history to his offspring, compels him to account for marking Cain, lest an 
avenging mob take his life, when no one existed, but his parents and Seth to be 
born one hundred years thereafter; compels him to account for this immoral 
God's taking sides with Cain, the destroyer of the life of Abel, and the threat of 
seven-fold vengeance launched upon any that should slay him, which is to say 
the least, a caution of this God without sufficient reason for a God to exhibit; 
and compels him to account for the inhabitants of Nod, where Cain found his 
wife and built a city, and raised six generations of its inhabitants before his 
mother Eve, gave birth to her next child, Seth. Noah being the sixth genera- 
tion from Cain, whose ark and contents, restored to the imagination the animal 
kingdom, from utter extinction by the flood. As history, all of the foregoing 
contradictions and absurdities, are to be reconciled; as fiction, on the other 
hand, Adam's disobedience to an immoral command and his taking punish- 
ment for it, by the Jewish God in order to furnish a license or passport for 
Rulers to treat the masses in like manner. 

Under its moral aspect, as a lesson, Adam's obedience to the Moral Law 
of the Supreme Being, as registered in his own soul, in spite of a command from 
tyranny to the contrary and you are done. Thus, you have portrayed the 
Jewish God in league with priests, who recommend lamb in preference to vege- 
tables for offerings; and in league with immoral rales, for he deigns not to 
whip virtue, and to protect vice, and the masses are treated at his hand as mere 
forces of nature to execute their rulers pui poses. Any religion precisely as with 
the citizen, vvho first sought wealth, as a means for sustenance and the perfec- 
tion of his nature; but by force of habit and indifference, to the moral lecti- 
tude of his nature lost sight of the proper end, and allowed the passion for gain 
alone, to become the end ; so likewise, with the Church, which makes its dogmas 
an end, especially after they are outgrown; and are no longei of service (except 



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to translate a public servant, politician or clergyman, into a private despot) 
even for oppression. Such immoral dogmas, render the Proselyte, as much an 
object of pity as the miser with his wealth; if the end perfection is broached in 
either case, one asks, does it pay interest? The other, does it agree with my 
dogmas? 

When you pose as an applicant to any evangelical church, you are not 
questioned upon the desire, of a life in harmony with universal law, oi axio- 
matic truth; and demonsti ative right. Your entire questioning for the pei- 
petual servility of youi powers, is, do you believe dogmas that contiadict nature's 
laws and axiomatic truth, to which you surrender unqualified assent. 

The visional y priest, minister, as well as the Proselyte, are always absorbed, 
possessed and whoU;/ gone in scriptural dogmas; and never were known to get 
beyond the narrator's meiest incidents, which he uses for purposes of despotism, 
portrayed in the abstract, but believed by the feeble mind in the conciete alone. 
And this is precisely the half-way house where the church of chiistendom stands 
to-day, in regard to the end, human perfection. 

The creeds dogmas and beliefs, all center upon the means, which habit 
and atrophy has transmuted to the end. 

And these means, created for the tyrant in realms of oppression, can do 
absolutely no reliable or available service whatever in the realm of freedom. 
So we have the story right over again, of the man who is Possessed by his wealth 
which the religious bigot occasionally cites in order to have a distribution come 
his way; for he lives in the means here as elsewhere, from which his sophistry 
is powerless to extricate him. How do these absurdities affect the human 
faculties, which are the true and unmistakable correlatives of the universe of 
the Supreme Being, which are grown in his universe and fit his universe, and 
when unperverted by the folly, caprice and falsehood of dogmatizers, are the 
sure and infallible guide to all correct action in the environment that necessi- 
tates them. 

How do these absurdities affect the nine faculties of man? They dispute 
their voice and veracity, and lelegate the man so imposed upon, a fit subject, 
(an easy prey, to the wiles of the tyrant) for the realm of serfdom, caprice, 
guile and impotency. A positive faith in the voice and veracity of the 
FACULTIES, the neccessary truths, and the Moral Law, is the greatest 

achievements of HUMAN DESTINY. 

But the man that imitates others by imposing upon himself pretentions 
that contradict the mind's infallible sentinels, truth and right, is not only not 
saved, but he is as lost to the use of his powers, as though he had none. Truth 
is the agreement of the judgments of the mind, with some law or fact (truth or 
right) in the universe about us. 

A creed of the church instead of agreeing with some law or fact, truth or 
right, is a statement that is their sure contradiction. The article of faith, that 
the Savior arose from the dead, after his body had been mangled, as narrated 
whether taken as a matter of fiction or event, contradicts the law that nature 
is uniform. Can any man plead that he cannot undertand that the Savior 
Jesus, a product of fiction, is wholly in the service of the throne; that he is 



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furnished as a scape-goat to carry beyond the camp^ all virtues like Adam's^ 
that conflict with this immoral God's tyrannical rule? This God's throne, 
being reared in vice, it is in order that virtue should crawl for pardon, like the 
child who seeks pardon for a night passed without a theft, and that the native 
intuitions of the soul, which aie none other than the ordinances of the Supreme 
Being, should be branded as illicit by this inferior God, his Bible and worshippers. 
So that ''the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of 
Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe."^ All under sin why, that the 
believer surrender assent to the crucifixion. In a free country, at least, every 
man and woman is thrown upon their own individual resources to judge of the 
soundness or deficiency of his or her thought material. 

A moral rational mind is the only one that draws a sharp line between 
truth and falsehood in all its thought material. Such a mind accepts truth at 
sight precisely as you accept sound lumber at sight. Such a mind rejects 
falsehood and contiadiction at sight precisely as it rejects rotten shingles at 
sight for roofing a house. Now the mind that does not act in this manner is 
trifling, incompetent, and acts against itself when it does act. Nature may have 
taught it that fire will burn and water will drown, bodies will fall, and, at the 
same time, that mind may be powerless to discern that false immoral and con- 
tradictory thoughts are just as disastrous to the mind as fire, water, or descent 
from a precipice is to the body, or rotten shingles, contradict the purpose of 
keeping out the water. To draw a sharp line between right and wrong, truth 
and falsehood, is the principle business of life. 

When words as they stand, have a meaning in a narrative, taken as a 
whole, but taken by themselves, are meaningless but may be used to give author- 
ity to a subject, as a Bible prophecy, with a meaning totally repugnant to 
their origin in the context; such a use of words, is as much a fraud, as to deliver 
a part or not any of the goods actually sold. 

And upon such a use of words, from Isa. 7:14, and Gen. 2:17, is reared both 
the dogmas of Original Sin and redemption. Consequently, the Supreme Being 
has not the slightest use in the world for a Savior reared by such a fraud, even 
though Original Sin, had been genuine. 

The rational and moral powers, which are the throne of the Supreme Being, 
set up in the human soul, that christian sophistry, has already so broken down 
that truth by the christian, is treated like falsehood, and right is treated as sin, 
verified by the words: ''For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be 
made alive, " which the Moral Law demands shall be read (For as in Christ all 
DIE, even so in Adam shall all be made alive) a truth, than which, there is 
none more valid. 

The former is a notion which primitive fancy has brought down from the 
moral infancy of the race; the latter, is the infallible decree of the Moral Law. 
The Supreme Being, has written the seal of infallibility upon the unperverted 
use of the faculties and intuitions of the soul. Powers which bear their own 
impress of divinity, and their voice is final when not impeached by the immoral 
contradictions of christian or charlatan fanaticism. Testaments Old and New, 
which in themselves are nothing but words placed together on external parch- 



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ment; the work of scribes or bishops in the actual or constructive employ of the 
throne, can contain nothing in opposition to its censorship and caprice ; and it is 
nonsense to attempt to read right into error and falsehood. 

Can the dating back of the New Testament, four hundred years, receive the 
sanction of the Moral Law, if the work were of divine origin. Can such an act 
be reconciled on any other supposition than the fact that all the incidents used 
are merely dramatized fiction, with the scene laid from 6 B. C. to 96 A. D., 
in defiance of the fact that the dogmas on its pages had their origin A. D. 381 
or later. 

The dogma of redemption which the anonymous bishops set forth by the 
mouth of Paul, Rom. 10:9, ''If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the 
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the 
dead, thou shalt be saved," purports to have been written by the tent-maker 
Paul, A. D. 60; and the books ascribed to this Paul by the anonymous bishops, 
are Romans, First and Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesions, Philimon, 
Collossions, Thessolonions, Timothy, Titus and Hebrews, all purporting by 
the church to have been written according to the dates of the context from 
A. D. 54, to A. D. 64. ^ 

As a matter of secular history, the Book of Hebrews, was first procured by 
St. Jerome from a Nazerene of Berea, A. D. 397, and since its contents comprise 
the dogmas of Original Sin and redemption, which had their origin at the court 
of Emperor Theodosius, at Constantinople in council convoked A. D. 381, the 
evidence is conclusive that all books of the New Testament containing the dog- 
mas in question, could not have not originated previous to that date. 

This same Paul, who consented to the death of Stephen, A. D. 33, that had 
a fit and joined the christian sect A. D. 35, from which he lost the use of his 
eyes for three days; this same Paul, who converted Dyonisius the Areopagite, 
Acts 17:34 A. D. 54, for safety; this Dyonisius who wrote seventeen volumes in 
the latter part of the fourth century. 

Either this Paul is the originator of the Christian Religion, expressed in the 
formula of fifteen words contained in I Cor. 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made alive" or else these dogmas as they stand, 
(than which no words contain a greater falsehood before the bar of the Moral 
Law,) are the work of one hundred and fifty ordained bishops, convoked into 
a council by Emperor Theodosius the Great, with St. Gregory of Nazianzus, 
President, A. D. 381, and their bishop associates; and the book of Romans 
bearing the fabulous date of 60 A. D., on its pages, was written by men, who 
lived three hundred and thirty-six years subsequent or A. D. 396. 

Thus the evidence is overwhelming that the New Testament had its origin 
later than A. D. 381, since it must have been written by men fully acquainted 
with dogmas which originated, and were voted into existence at that time, as was 
St. Jerome, author of the Latin Vulgate, who died A. D. 420; St. Patrick, who 
died A. D. 432; St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, who converted St. Augustine, 
A. D. 386, made Bishop of Hippo A. D, 395; St. John Chrysostum and one 
hundred and fifty bishops from Europe, Asia and Africa, that were the actors at 
the council of Emperor Theodosius, the Great, and were the originators of the 



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dogmas of Original Sin and redemption as formulated I Cor. 15:22, with which 
the New Testament is saturated from Matthew to Revelation, elaborated upon 
by the Book Matthew, the Book Mark, the Book Luke, and the Book John in 
detail, and are formulated a dozen times in Romans, Chapter five. The dogma 
''For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive, " covers the 
ground of the religion and is no more valid than its perverted source. Gen. 2:17, 
and Isa. 7:14, and Rom. 11:32 states, ''For God hath concluded them all in 
unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all." How unspeakably kind and 
self-contradictory of this Jewish God, to exhibit Mercy on those whom he con- 
■cluded in the disbelief of falsehood; and Gal. 3:22, "But the scripture hath 
concluded all under sin, that the Promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be 
given to them that believe. " 

The Moral Law says, so much the worse for the scriptures. How unspeak- 
able kind of the inspired writers of those scriptures to conclude all 
under sin for an act of uncompromising virtue in Adam. Every word and line 
of these dogmas, is a fetter, falsehood and a shackle put upon the native intui- 
tions of truth and right which the Supreme Being has furnished to be evoked 
and cultivated and used as a guide and guard to man against his soul's desecra- 
tion with the false. That the New Testament is in no manner the work of a 
carpenter's son Jesus, or a dozen shark-drivers as his apostles, or a Paul the 
tent-maker, who A. D. 54, Acts 17:34, converted Dyonysius, the Athenian 
author and imposter of seventeen books of A. D. 362, or later. 

But such is the work of an Emperor's anonymous bishops who are pledged 
to support him throughout the limit of his domain from Spain to Egypt. Dog- 
mas like the Infallible Trinity, that took wrangling bishops fifty-six years to 
formulate into a proposition are uttered by the mouth of the character Jesus 
in as off-hand a manner as a mere insurance solicitor, who is as ignorant of the 
meaning and condition of the policy, as a fisherman would be of the policy of his 
Emperor; and the design of this Emperor is more than manifest, when his 
anonymous bishops call to their aid, as authors of the New Testament, men 
whose employment gives them the most meagre use of letters; if so be they 
should possess skill sufficient to write their own name; but to make such charac- 
ters to become the Fishers op Men is like the decoys used by the hunters of 
the elephant, that take along a number in servitude to lure those in freedom 
into the meshes of the trap; and when trapped, are at least two-fold deeper in 
the pit of Hell than before. 

Thus, this infallible text -book of the tyrant is unmasked, and this carpen- 
ter's son who makes forbearance between fellow subjects, four hundred and 
ninety times greater than between a subject and his King or God; and these 
fishermen, apostles and tent-maker, are the mere puppets that a designing 
Emperor uses for the total subjection of his serfs, which at once upon the advent 
of the New Testament, A. D. 397, followed from Spain to Egypt, the suppression 
of the public schools and ignorance was made so complete in the territory, not 
possessed by the Mohammedans, in the eighth century, when the church in the 
ascendant was at its zenith, that two-thirds of the male population of England 
went to their graves with brass Dog Collars, soldered about their necks, engraved 



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with the word Thrall. But to return, writing as the text purports, the Book 
of Romans, A. D. 60, about dogmas, that St. Gregory of A. D. 381, invented 
for his Emperor, Theodosius the Great, to make secure his throne, which was 
tottering from his numerous massacres, is nothing short of downright imposture. 
Dogmas of Original Sin and redemption, which were positively unknown 
as myths, or fiction even, previous to A. D. 381, up to which time baptism alone 
was the dogma for salvation, as is evidenced by the admission of a million Goths 
by Emperor Valens, over the Danube into the Empire, on condition of the sur- 
render of arms and submission to baptism. Considering the contents of the 
New Testament, it is no surprise to the power of thought or reflection to find 
that its entire contents was written not earlier than A. D. 381. But not a page 
of it was written before that time, which contains the dogmas then invented: 
and since the Christian Religion on St. Gregory's construction put upon Gen. 
2:17, for Original Sin: and the God of that legend, is the one adopted throughout 
the pages of the New Testament in unity as the Jewish God, but in trinity as the 
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the legitimate inference is, that the entire work 
of the New Testament is the product of the imagination of the Emperor's bish- 
ops, which is an elaboration of the dogmas voted into existence at the aforesaid 
council; since it contains the substance of the votes of the council, A. D. 381; 
but not those fifty years later, which endowed God the Father with King Ahaz's 
apostatized Virgin for a mother, known thereafter as ''Mary the Mother of God," 
which is the most important of all, as the Catholic Church has proven by its 
general adoption. 

And since it cancelled the absolute orphanhood of God the Father, and 
added to his legitimacy, a quality which this God exceedingly lacked, considering 
his precarious origin and immorality, as set forth by the writer in the Pentateuch, 
as instanced by his indefensible conduct by the punishment of vritues in Adam, 
and protection of vice in Cain. But, since Christianity had adopted him for 
a father A. D. 381, which designation signifies the first person of the trinity 
yet fifty years later it seemed good to them, in imitation of their pagan brothers, 
to grant him a mother. So A. D. 4^1 at the council of Ephesus under Theodo- 
sius, the Younger, his orphahood ceased, although fifty years previous, or A. D. 
381, God, the son, had been given precisely the same mother by the votes of one 
hundred and fifty bishops, and the Holy Ghost for a father, whose votes, at 
that time, conferred upon this Holy Ghost the prerogative of Lord and giver of 
life and that he proceeded from God the Father alone. But, A. D. 447, by 
act of council, this precise Holy Ghost, which, A. D. 381, was decreed the Lord 
and giver of Life, an object of worship, and the Father of God the Son or Jesus 
Christ, verified Matt. 1:18, by the words, ''Now the birth of Christ was on this 
wise. When, as his mother, Mary, was espoused to Joseph, before they came 
together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Notwithstanding the 
fact that, by act of council, the Holy Ghost was made the father of Jesus, A. D. 
381, yet, so infalliable are the decisions of the bishops of these councils that in 
just sixty-six years or A. D. 447 the Holy Ghost, himself, was forced to claim 
no other origin than that he proceeded from God the Son, as well as God the 
Father. Thus this Holy Ghost which A. D. 381 gave rise to God the Son, sixty- 



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six years later, or A. D. 447, God the Son gives rise to him. Thus so infallible 
are the acts of these church councils that, in just sixty-six years, a son is made 
to originate his own father. Yet, these deceptive falsehoods the simple minded 
believe to be the special revelation of Heaven. When a Proselyte of the Christian 
Religion is led to behold the unlimited power of church councils, and the invincible 
struggles that one hundred and fifty ordained bishops went through with to 
enthrone the pictorial God of Adam, whose main use for the masses, was obedi- 
ence to his orders; and to deliver the lesson that authority must be obeyed, 
even though its commands, infect its utterer with the baseness of self-reproach, 
and that when ever an infant or man grown, less than a year old even, attempts 
to wield the weapon of the Moral Law of the Supreme Being against a command 
prohibiting a knowledge of good and evil by an imaginary, pictorial or an inferior 
God, even though its disobedience is conditioned upon a threat of death, veri- 
fied Gen. 2:17, and by the New Testament confirmed, I Cor. 14:38, saying, ''If 
any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." 

(But be it known, that such an attempt by an Adam and his Moral Law, 
will be met and combated from the ranks of the Jewish God, with the soul- 
crushing dogma of Original Sin, and with the blighting assent to crucifixion 
or human slaughter to expiate, absolve or atone for that sin, the work of the 
council of Theodosius' bishops, the Christian Religion, and New Testament 
of their own make. So that your Suprerne Being and his Adam with the weapon 
of the Moral Law, which has only silent truth to champion their cause). 

But the great question is, will the cause of the Supreme Being stand the 
test of coming ages, combated by God the Father, combated by God the Son, 
combated by God the Holy Ghost, combated by the Christian Religion, which 
is, in substance, the fall of man, and the dogma of redemption, and the New 
Testament, its voucher. All of which has had fifteen centuries run among 
about five per cent, of the inhabitants of the earth. Do you think that the 
Supreme Being sustained by his Moral Law, will rally such an assault at the 
hand of so formidable a foe as Christianity, its Gods and creeds, besides such an 
ANCIENT Trinity of Gods, with such a lively following' Why gentlemen, and 
ladies, the fanciful sophistry of the Christian Religion, and its fifteen centuries' 
run, in which virtue is punished as, and for a crime, the second time, which 
is a demonstration of the utter futility of combatting the Moral Law. 

Such a foe is no more before the bar of the Moral Law, of the Supreme Being 
than a season's run of fashionable hats, with style, bandying the right of bodily 
protection. The origin of the immoral dogmas, set up in opposition to the 
Moral Law of the Supreme Being, ought to bring conviction to any moral rational 
intelligence, that Christianity is only another name for Paganism, and the Holy 
Trinity is only another name for a Plurality of Gods; and the fact of ascribing 
to them mothers if there were no other sign for the Christian to detect his 
fetters, such is the very ultimate of Paganism. 

Besides the flourish of rhetoric, from King Ahaz's time relation, from which 
the christian bishops have by an illicit interpretation, tortured the text of Isa. 
7:14 out of its meaning in the context, to yield a mother for every several per- 
son in the Holy Trinity, the riddle first uttered B.C. 742, for time to elapse 



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before an event, by the death of the King of Israel, which occurred three years 
later, or B. C. 739, which closed its further legitimate use, notwithstanding, 
from the mere parts of speech or words of the context, the Virgin Mary and her 
Son Jesus derive their origin. But her mission is not at an end, fiction, or figure 
of speech wrenched from their purpose and used in a different relation, then 
over one thousand years after the culmination of the prophecy under the intent 
of the author, this virgin is tortured from the mere abstract word, ''Virgin" 
signifying motherhood, used as a landmark in the passing of time, to the Virgin 
Mary, the Mother of Gods, until she yield as sons God the Father, by act of 
council A. D. 431, God the Son, by act of council A. D. 381, veiified Matt. 1 :18:23, 
and as gradson, God the Holy Ghost by act of council, A. D. 447, in Spain. 

Notwithstanding by act of council, A. D. 381, this same grandson the Holy 
Ghost, was made Father by vote of her first child Jesus. How came he grand- 
son, the Virgin Mary gave rise to both: God the Son, A. D. 381, and God the 
Father A. D. 431, and then for God the Holy Ghost, A. D. 447, to proceed from 
both HER sons, would make God the Holy Ghost, her sons' son, or grandson. 
Do you see? 

Matt. 28:18:19, ''And Jesus came and spoke unto them saying, aU power 
is given unto me in Heaven and in earth ; go ye therefore and teach all nations, 
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. " 
So you see that this august trinity was not finished until A. D, 447. 

Thus, it is manifest that this partnership trinity, first gained its finishing 
stroke in Spain, in A. D. 447, and only arrived in France eight hundred and 
twenty-seven years later, or A. D. 1274. At the time when this Holy part- 
nership trinity commenced its formation, A. D. 381, it was decreed that God 
the Holy Ghost, proceeded from God the Father alone, but A. D. 447 in Spain, 
it was then and there decreed that God the Holy Ghost, originated in part 
from God the Son, which God the Son, sixty-six years previous, was given his 
origin from precisely the same Holy Ghost. So indissoluble are the ties that 
bind together this Holy Trinity, that each partner in successive stages, derives 
his origin from the other on his father's side; and all are sons on the mother's 
side, that is to say, each derived his origin from King Ahaz's virgin, apostatized 
by the church, A. D. 381, to be "the Virgin Mary, " for the motherhood of Jesus 
Christ and apostatized by the church A. D. 431, to be "Mary the mother of 
God," for the motherhood of God the Father. And when the Book Matthew, 
28:18:19, states, by the mouth of the character Jesus, "teach all nations, bap- 
tizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, ' ' 
3^ou have the full fledged trinity in use and operation. 

Thus the evidence is good that the New Testament had its origin not earlier 
than A. D. 381, when the Holy Trinity first began to formulate, and since it 
was not completed by act of council in Spain, until A. D. 447, and since the 
Book Matthev\^, contains the trinity in full form, use and operation, it is highly 
probable that the New Testament, which contains the dogma, is not an earlier 
production. 

Either this Paul the tent-maker, is the inventor of the dogma of Original 
Sin, A. D. 60, or it is the work of no less a body of men, than St. Gregory, Presi- 



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dent of the Council, A. P. 381, and his coadjutors, or successors who take up 
the work and date their New Testament back and lay the scene from 6 B. C. to 
96 A. D., and use the mouth of this Paul as an incident in the drama, together 
with the rest. And this fact, coupled with the fact that baptism was all that 
constituted the Christian Religion, A. D. 378, under Emperor Valens, the said 
Theodosius' predecessor is satisfactory proof that Paul is a mere figment of 
fiction, as are the other characters of the drama, which if not so, are made so by 
the dating back process; (since should a dramatist hit upon an historic name 
his act for his purpose transmutes or apostatizes the name). 

Ages when the masses were incapable of using anything but emotions, in 
the place of thought, such fables as that of Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, 
Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lions, Children and the Bears, Crossing 
the Red Sea, on Dry Land, Hebrews and the Fiery Furnace, beside all the frog 
and grasshopper stories, were told the masses by their priests, the same as do 
the Hottentots to-day to provoke obedience and supply his majesty's larder 
with sacrificial lamb. 

When these stories were lowered by the church, from myth, fiction and 
fable, to the history of men and events and to cover the contradictions which 
the change necessitated, every word in the Bible, was pronounced inspired, and 
took from the church the seal of infallibility, then every word literally means 
as it reads; and becomes nourishment for the minds of the uninquiring masses, 
and the professed christian to-day who can neither read or write states boldly 
that he believes every word of the Blessed Bible. 

Why, in my time, in order that the church might crush the human mind, 
wholly within its trammels, mothers have been consoled with the soothing 
unction that Hell, from the disobedience of Adam, is paved with infants' 
skulls, not being possessed with reason and fortitude sufficient to resist the 
imposition, mothers would yield their unqualified assent to an inherited spiritual 
taint, generated from being a descendant, as well as an accomplice in the dis- 
obedience of Adam, and accept unquestioned in place of the blood of bulls and 
goats, or Adam's exile to the contrary, the dogma of a sacrificial atonement 
through the blood and body of Jesus Christ. 

So completely are the human faculties buried in this sophistry, that it 
would be deemed sacrilege to ask would such a pavement stand the fire of ages ; 
in order to free the mind, and dissipate the falsehood, and that too, since their 
very Bible states that their own God passed judgment and sentence on Adam 
for his offense, which should end it, had he arrived at the years of accountabil- 
ity especially if the christian's God is real and Adam's act is a sin against him. 

But Adam's God, being a sham, and Adam's act a virtue. Original Sin falls 
to the ground; and mankind stands vidicated of the libel." ''Every tooth 
drawn from the mouth of error lessens the venom of its fangs. " 

But if you admit the sophistry of the premises Original Sin from the fable 
of Adam, in utter mockery of Adam's punishment for absolution, and in utter 
mockery of the word of their God, as depicted in Isa. 43:10:11, which states, 
" Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me, and besides 
me there is no Savior," notwithstanding all the foregoing, narrative to the 



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contrary, the said bishops formulate, Rom. 5:12, ''Wherefore as by one man 
sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all m.en, for 
that all have sinned," which act by the mind, of distinguishing good and evil, 
you positively know was a virtue, without which moral and rational existence 
at all, is impossible. 

That is the command prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil, if obeyed, 
and became universal, would absolutely extinguish all rational human life 
upon the earth, since it contradicts the conditions of such existence, and if you 
admit the atonement, the purpose of which was positively cancelled, B, C. 
3074, when Adam had served his complete sentence; and the possibility, of 
which was cancelled a second time in another relation B. C. 739, when Pekah, 
King of Israel, was slain; the possibility of which was again cancelled by the 
infallibility of the act of council A. D. 359, when six hundred bishops and a 
prodigious number of priests at Rimini and Selucia, pronounced the object of 
redemption in effect a mere disguise and perversion of a sign for the comfort 
of King Ahaz, by the Jewish God. Notwithstanding all this crushing defeat 
the said object of redemption was resuscitated and made a sin offering, and an 
object of worship or ''God with us" verified Matt. 1:23 by the vote of one hun- 
dred and fifty bishops, A. D. 381, after the dogma of Original Sin, the fall of 
man, and total depravity was created in order to completely crush the masses 
into servitude. 

And in the following manner are the dogmas joined in the relation of cause 
and effect, I Cor. 15:22, which states, "For as in Adam all die even so in Christ 
shall all be made alive. " If you admit Original Sin, which by the incidents of 
the fable was an act of virtue, flaunted in the face of the vice of the Jewish God, 
whose immoral command was for perpetual ignorance; if you admit such an 
act a sin when you know by the command of the Moral Law, that Adam was 
enjoined to obey his intuition of right, yet in the face of this truth, if by self- 
stultifiction you admit these senseless dogmas it should be no great hardship 
to face your destiny. If a man invites this sophistry, against himself destruc- 
tion of intuition, and faculty is the remedy of the Supreme Being for his rescue 
from responsibility, and an example for others to avoid the snare. 

When we are offered anything for a belief, originating from the imagination 
of dogmatizers in the service of the throne that contradicts the voice of our 
faculties and intuitions, or that our skill is powerless to unravel, but still we 
allow our powers to be whipped into a decision from the sheer imitation of 
others, we are well under way to join our foe in the practice of imposition upon 
ourselves. 

Better give the faculties the privilege of personal investigation. If the 
voice of reason and reflection, find upon the proofs that a doctrine is moral or a 
statement is valid, there is time enough then to accept it. The fable of the 
disobedience of Adam, by which the writer intended to portray a lesson of 
absolute despotism, or obedience to a command, however slavishly immoral. 
Which has been foisted by the church into an "Olympus looking down on 
mortals and worshipped by their awe." The church distorted the fable of 
Adam into a creed of Original Sin, The Fall of man and Total Depravity, 



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absolutely and positively overthrowing the oath of their own God, made B. C. 
1872, to bless all nations on account of the indefensible attempt of Abraham 
to slay his son, as well as in utter overthrow and mockery of this Jewish God's 
settlement of Adam's case, and in open defiance of the law and order of the 
Supreme Being, as vested in the human soul for its protection, perfection and 
preservation, wholly perverting the Moral Law, the rule of right and the domi- 
nant rule of truth, by transmuting or apostatizing their meaning, to a rule of 
sin. Original Sin, sin unto death in all men forever to be born, thus making the 
SIN OF RESISTING OPPRESSION which is a positive virtue, the rule ; and obedience 
to the Moral Law the exception; to be expiated throughout the earth, which is 
the most damning heresy against the right that was ever offered for a belief 
to the subjects of a throne for their perpetual serfdom, and what is still worse, 
the said bishops of the church have pronounced in effect the Moral Law of the 
Supreme Being a sin, since by allegiance to the God of despotism, they became 
infatuated with their own deception and have written a New Testament, and 
invented the Christian Religion with such sin as its foundation in open defiance 
and utter mockery of the Supreme Being, and such obedience to the Moral 
Law, as the narrative accords to Adam, when exercised against the immoral 
command of the Jewish God, a King or Emperor is pronounced by the church 
Original Sin, which is the most dastardly piece of high-handed knavery in the 
name of a God or religion ever known in the history of oppression. It is pre- 
tended by the church that the Jewish God has suffered an affront (by the Moral 
Law of the Supreme Being administered at the hand of the child or man Adam: 
mankind consigned to his dominion by the church thereby falls into Original 
Sin before this God's throne or at least such as are in His Dominion and are in 
allegiance to him. His only begotten son or ''God with us" or one- third part 
of this Jewish God, is dramatically crucified in pantomim.e and sacrificed as a 
sin offering to make permanent the decree of this Jewish God, set up by human 
fancy and imagination in the interest of the throne, that is, a God is fashioned 
from human imagination into a trinity for the throne of the tyrants to worship 
and imitate, and to be an example to which the masses may refer the conduct 
of their Kings and Emperors, however immoral; since disobedience to an im- 
moral command, was punished by the Gods in use, and the ruler always stands 
-as his anointed. But such pranks upon the masses under despotism, might 
pass without special wonder, but when the masses have carried this God of 
despotism, and this ''God with us" as his only begotten son, in free America 
for four centuries, which Gods were reared in the absolute interest of despotism 
as against the Moral Law, which is in open defiance of the Supreme Being; 
such must cause him to smile, "unless" things mortal trouble him not at all. " 

The relation of tyrant and subject as well as fellow subjects, pushed to the 
front by the mouth of the character, Jesus, in which seventy times seven, is the 
rule set up by the inventors of the character Jesus, for him to exhibit; and this 
character Must exhibit the limit of forbearance between subjects and (God 
the Father and a king), that such subjects be turned over to the tormentors 
for the first offense. 

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be forgiven in Advnace of any personal sin committed. 

And now, God the Son, seated at the right hand of God the Father, shows 
positively by his unbounded love in making his enemies his foot-stool what he 
meant, when he said, '^ Father forgive them, for they know not what they do, " 
which is a satire, and the real meaning is, ''Ye are the children of them which 
killed the prophets. Ye serpents. Ye generation of vipers. " And after God the 
Father, concluded all in unbelief to exercise his mercy, God the Son, said, ''He 
that belie veth not shall be damned. How can ye escape the damnation of Hell.' 

"But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down 
on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his 
foot-stool. " Do you see, how a first-class demagogue will deport himself when 
he gets beside the throne, of a Jewish despotic God, who will punish virtue 
sooner than vice? 

It is not a question of virtue, truth or right, now it is wholly a question of 
enemies to his God's camp. But let is be said, right now, that the Supreme 
Being, nor you or I, have any business with this trinity of Gods ; made divisional 
and fractional by the church from the Jewish God. They are all demagogues, 
and decoys in the service of the throne; "If any man be ignorant, let him be 
ignorant. " 

Can you doubt the meaning of this, by the mouth of Paul, the pen of a 
bishop, censored by the crown, verified I Cor. 14:38:37, "If any man think 
himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I 
write to you, are the commandments of the Lord," 

What profundity of wisdom, for the simple-minded from the whims and 
imaginations of those confirmed in deception, until they believe they are divinely 
called into the practice, that is, I am the Lord. Do you see? And Rom. 3:7, 
^'If the truth of God, (that is the Jewish God) hath more abounded through my 
Lie, unto his glory, why yet am. I also judged a sinner; and that rather (as we 
be slanderously reported, and as some affirm we say), let us do evil that good 
ma}^ come, whose damnation is just." 

What a pity, the anonymous bishops, who used this admonition were power- 
less themselves, to continue in their work of the New Testament, its conscious 
application. But like a professional horse-trader, who in the form of jest, 
declares his horse unsound, that is so. But with no apparent blemish, in order 
to throw the risk wholly onto the purchaser, so that when the defect is dis- 
covered, the seller m^ay shift from the buffoon to the serious and say, I told you 
so. Like another saying ascribed to the witness Paul, "If Christ be not risen, 
then is our preaching vain; and your faith is also vain, yea and we are found 
false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he raised up 
Christ, v/hom he raised not up, if be so the dead rise not, then they also which 
have fallen asleep in Christ, are perished. " 

A form of dealers talk, intended to deceive. And Gal. 3:22, "the scripture 
hath concluded all- under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might 
be given to them that believe." Did you ever stop to think against what 
throne all were concluded under sin by Adams's disobedience? It can not be the 
throne of the SupremxO Being; for Adam's positive obedience to the intuition 



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of right, whether fact or fiction, the lesson is, he obeyed the command of the 
Moral Law, and becom.es identified with it, which is absolutely the law of the 
Supreme Being, set up in the human soul, and for any book, scripture or other- 
writing, to conclude all under sin, for that act of Adam, would make it so much 
the worse for the scripture; and would make such scripture immoral by its own 
self-impeachment. 

Could such scripture be in any possible manner, dictated by the Holy 
Spirit of the Supreme Being? Not the least in the world, on the contrary it is 
the work of a most fragmentary spirit. Any book, writing or scripture, that 
execrates Adam's act of uncompromising virtue, (when the question is confined 
to the command for ignorance, and its disobedience by the command of the 
Moral Law, is enjoined to strike down the base and immoral command, issuing 
from the lips of an imaginary God, King, Emperor or Despot,) such is absolutely 
and positively immoral. 

Then for the writer of Rom. 11:32, to state ''God (the Father) hath con- 
cluded all in unbelief (of sheer nonsense or Adam's sin, and the scheme of redemp- 
tion for it, which is mere dealers talk to bluff the unwary;) that he might have 
mercy upon all. " And God the Son says, Mark 16:16, '' Go ye into all the world 
and preach the Gospel (of Original Sin and Redemption) to every creature. 
He that believeth (when God the Father has concluded All in unbelief in order 
to rear a target for his mercy) and is baptized, shall be saved, but he that 
believeth not, (what? That Adam's act of uncompromising of virtue, is 
SIN, and that I, Jesus Christ, am the genuine attonement for it), shall be 
damned." 

What was the sin of the poetic family of Adam, interpreted in the light of 
truth, right and reason? Had there been no other abnormal incidents in the 
writer's description, and had Adam rejected the knowledge of good and evil, 
according to command ; why then his conduct would agree with the New Testa- 
ment requisit, I Cor. 14:38, ''If any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant," 

The use and application that the writer has made of the word, "God'^ 
on the subject of Adam's disobedience, does not relieve the situation a particle. 
The truth is, the Moral Law, is desecrated, and falsehood or the immoral, can- 
not change its deformity even by the use of a mistaken notion for the Supreme 
Being by a profane application of the word "God," to furnish a passport for 
the immoral. In fact, all who accept the dogma, I Cor. 15:22, "For as in Adam 
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," are as certainly the Jewish 
God's obedient servants, as the Christian Church is successful in his adoption. 
All of which by their own acknowledgment and self-impeachment, are as lack- 
ing in the use of the knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, as though 
they were the active participants on the side of the tyrant, despot or oppressor. 

Their emotions are that way and for lack of skill and sheer fatigue they are 
as certainly in the ranks of the oppressor as were the Tories, in 1776, whose 
apathy and allegiance to tyranny, made them her votaries. Any man that 
believes himself a sinner, requiring absolution from Adam's disobedience, 
which was an act of virtue, as a principle of ethics, in any conceivable relation 
or application, is simply mistaken, and by being mistaken, is as much a Prose- 



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lyte of the Jewish God, whose realm is vicO; whose law, like the command to 
Adam, is the indiscriminate revelry in good and evil, whose piety knows no 
other rule, than obedience, like the spear to the hand that wiedls it, whose throne 
is reared from the legends of human fancy, in the interest of oppression, but 
has been captured, adopted and made real, by imitation by tyranny and op- 
pression for nearly six thousand years, in open and positive defiance of the 
Moral Law and order of the Supreme Being, which backs that law. 

Can any free-born American citizen, fail to distinguish the difference 
between the Supreme Being, who gave him his powers, and the Jewish God, 
which forbids their use. 

But to work the conduct of the Jewish God and his dealings with Adam, 
into a system of religion, the said bishops advanced the idea, of taking up the 
command and disobedience of Adam; and since the punishment for that dis- 
obedience, as they conclude was only partially administered, so that to be 
altogether effectual, a crucified atonement must be added, which for emphasis 
is set down a dozen times in Romans, Chapter five. 

Why is this story so valuable for the throne? Because the God demands 
the right to punish virtue, when exercised against his base senseless and immoral 
command, as is the Prohibition of the knowledge of good and evil, the disobedi- 
ence of which as the legend goes, he does punish and for which base act, the 
New Testament is not only one encomium of praise, and Adam's virtue is by 
the New Testament, treated as one malediction of execration. 

But so infatuated for the despotic welfare of their Emperor, are the bishops 
founders of our Holy Religion, with this God's punishment of Adam, for his 
virtue and the unquestionable license and passport it furnishes for indiscriminate 
punishment, that the same offense must be atoned for once again by a victim 
of crucifixion; so a Christ or ''God the Son, " is crucified. 

And such was the intention of the anonymous bishops, who make familiar 
use of the word ''God" to fix in the mind of common humanity, that Obedi- 
ence that knows not the reason why, that strikes dead, dumb, or turns to 
salt, all whose sense of Inquiry should dare to smile, turn the head or request 
a reason. Teach your children to love these things. 

Some day their off-spring will have to taste them. 

History repeats Fiction as well as itself. Thus it is evident that any- 
one who has the conscious and practical use of the intuitive idea of resemblance, 
that the God and people of these legends, that make up the characters narrated 
in the scenes, never existed any where but in the realm of human fancy; but 
like all novels, such fiction, moulds and shapes the characters of those who 
read, believe and indulge in it. 

Such Gods were created especially for the adoration of tyrants and the 
subjugation of serfs. But in the realm of equal rights, there ought to be 
marrow enough in the bones of the mind, for men to stand by the Supreme 
Being, and never witingly become victims to such primitive falsehood. First 
it is self-evident that the life of the mind or soul, is its agreement with eternal 
principles and its agreement with itself. And it is just as self-evident that the 
figurative death of the mind or soul is its contradiction of eternal principles and 



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the subversion of its powers with falsehood, whether by mistake or by design. 

This for moral rational thought, constitutes all religion, for intelligence 
there is none beside it; and any system that comes against this invincible fortress 
is dashed to pieces. 

The writer of the story of Adam, who uses the word ''God" for no other 
purpose than a passport or license to caprice and falsehood, first contradicts an 
eternal principle by the command he issued to Adam, the obedience of which 
in the region of the Supreme Being, contradicts right by the ignorance it enjoins 
which necessitates the indiscriminate use and revelry in good and evil, which is 
positively wong for beings capable of moral rational intelligence. 

Both of the foregoing truths are self-evident. Second, the character used 
as a God, contradicts the spirit of his command, which is contradicting himself, 
when he says, ''Behold the man has become as one of us, to know good and 
evil" which is a tacit admission that Adam's disobedience under the circum- 
stances, agrees at least with the writer's if not the God's intermittent sense of 
right, v/hich for him to deny, is to contradict himself again, which he does in 
act b}^ the expulsion of Adam from the Garden of Eden. As a principle of 
ethics from fiction according to the Moral Law which is the transgression? 
This false self-contradicting product of the imagination of the writer set up for 
a God or Adam although a product of imagination whose conduct is depicted 
in obedience to his intuition of right who disregards the immoral trifling com- 
mand gains the knowledge prohibited rather than revel in the indiscriminate 
use of both the evil and the good; and thus squares his life with the eternal 
principle of right by conforming to the conditions of human existence upon the 
earth which have grown as its correlate the intuition of right in the human 
soul. 

The disobedience of Adam for lack of Moral and ethical wisdom to break 
down an infamous libel has become current, which disobedience the bishops 
of Theodosius' council designated a sin. Original Sin, Total Depravity, Death. 
"So death passed upon all men " verified Rom. 5:12. 

The fact that this act of Adam as an ethical principle was in obedience to 
the Moral Law, the fact that it was just and agreed with the native intuitions 
of truth and right, made disobedience, other incidents normal, his unconditional 
duty. 

Why so? Obedience under those circumstances, positively enjoining 
ignorance, would put to slience the intuition of right, consequently, would be 
absolutely im^moral, as an ethical vice both for Adam's powers and mankind 
as an example. Next, it would ecourage the crawling foot-steps of tyranny, 
oppression and caprice as did Abraham's childish obedience, which is met with 
endless encomiums in both Old and New Testaments, in the attempt to sacrifice 
his son, which is nothing less as an example than indefensible obedience at 
the expense of human life. But Adam's virtue, and his absolute duty which 
demands the approbation of all right minded men, was by the court of Theodo- 
sius, the Great, voted a sin, and for fifteen centuries the Proselytes of Christen- 
dom have had once a week their souls nailed to the pictorial cross of this ignor- 
ance, error, falsehood and superstition; and from, sheer fatigue the dimness of 



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their eyes reject the truth, and they prefer to bear the oppression until death, 
rather than to rise to the dignity of truth, right and manhood. 

So, the nine faculties, and twelve intuitive ideas, (of John Bascom) which 
give to man when evoked, cultivated and used, his native prerogative in the 
universe of the Supreme Being, are set at naught, and thus human life in the 
behest of oppression is passed like a slave, and his death is like a dog, that 
awaits the will of its owner to perish.' 

Races like Christians, who make use of one or more imaginary Gods, 
reared from the primitive Barbarian or Savage; such must, to be sure, answer 
for them, but men capable of moral intelligence to abandon their powers and 
stoop to the dictate of savage invention, is the very ultimate of perfidy and 
human depravity, is the very ultimate of insensible obedience and slavishness. 
To be a law of nature, resurrection must contradict its being a dogma of religion, 
and vice versa, but the author makes it, I Cor. 15:21, a dogma of the Christian 
Religion, and I Cor. 15:1:18, are the words: ''And if Christ be not raised 
your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins, then they also that are fallen asleep 
in Christ are perished. " 

But unfortunate for this dogma, formulated (I Cor. 15:21, ''For since by 
man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead, ") the same 
author affirms I Cor. 15:13, "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then 
is not Christ risen, " which is an utter overthrow of the dogma of resurrection, 
and consigns the entire subject to the laws of nature. Again, I Cor. 14:15, is 
found a contradiction of the dogma by the words: "And if Christ be not risen, 
then is our preaching vain and your faith is vain, yea and we are found false 
witnesses of God, (meaning the Jewish God) because we have testified of God, 
that he raised up Christ, whom he raised Not up if so be that the Dead rise 
not;" and this last clause throws the whole burden of the truth of Christ's 
RESURRECTION ou to the suppositiou of UNIVERSAL resurrection of the dead, 
and abandons the evidence of Christ's resurrection in body, as is set forth in 
the gospels to the realm of fiction. 

Even those fallen asleep in Christ, whether by mistake or knowing all the 
conditions, is staked on Christ's resurrection. So that theoretically, the imputed 
sin of all men from the disobedience of Adam, pronounced by the church a sin 
of the soul, unto death in all men, is bound in the relation of cause to the effect 
that the resurrection of the dead, for all men arises as the clergy has made its 
Proselytes believe, as a bounty arising from the resurrection of Christ, expressed 
by the formula, "For since by man (Adam) came death, by man (Christ) came 
also the resurrection of the dead." And this theoretical death, is so sure and 
certain a misfortune, made real only by belief and suggestion for the masses, 
that even those that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished, "If Christ be not 
raised. " 

But this shift and jugglery from a dogma of the church to a law of nature; 
and back again fx'om a law of nature to the dogma of the church, as is instanced 
several times, 1 Cor. 15:13 to 23. 

Hov/ever, the resurrection of the dead, if it come to pass at all, it must be 
in spite of all inferior Gods, sacrifices, or men which set them up; and proceed 



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directly from a law of the Supreme Being. 

But the trap is, that resurrection comes form the resurrection of the imagi- 
nary victim, Immanuel, that catches all of the '^ Johnny Raws" and then when 
caught, they can shirk for themselves or flounder about the contradiction and 
vanities of faith and preaching, till death tranquilizes their vanity of vanities. 

All of which, is the acceptance of a pretended advantage proffered by the 
church, at the hand of the crucifiers of the pictorial Savior. But life is too 
valuable to waste upon such follies; and men who wager their soul's destiny 
upon them, are mere gamblers. Why they wager eternal life on the spoils of 
the crucifixion. Heb. 5:8, '''Though He were a son, yet learned He obedience 
by the things which He suffered." 

Also Phil. 2:6:8, "Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery 
to be equal with God, but he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, 
even the death of the cross. " 

Adam disobeyed the Jewish God's command, which cost him nine hundred 
and twenty-nine years of hard labor. Cain's descendants obeyed this God's 
commands to Adam for the rejection of knowledge of good and evil, for which 
he drowned them. God the Son disobeyed the Jewish God's command to 
Adam, and was crucified; and offered up as a sacrifice for Adam's virtue desig- 
nated by the church, by rulers, emperors and despots, a sin. But the Christian 
Religion, whose dogma-in-chief, is expressed by the words: I Cor. 15:22. "For 
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," which the same 
witness Paul, I Tim. 2:14, as flatly contradicts, as truth does falsehood by the 
words, "Adam was not deceived, but the Woman being deceived, was in the 
transgression." 

Here each assertion contradicts the other, and one must be false; if Eve 
was the one alone in the transgression, Adam was not in it on that issue; 
on the other hand, if the Moral Law was obeyed, by Adam's disobedience, 
considering the nature of the command, and God that issued it, Adam is out 
OF IT ON that issue, at least in the realm of the Supreme Being. 

And that leaves God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, 
a council made firm or partnership, whose sole business in the world, was to 
SUFFER from Adam's virtue; and an attempt to drown remorse by vilifying 
Adam and all men else simply displays the utter baseness of the scheme, and 
those engaged in it, expressed by the words: "Wherefore as by one man sin 
entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for 
that all have sinned." 

But no man of thought, governed by truth, right or reason, will mistake 
this Biblical legendary Jewish God of Adam, Abraham and Ahab, for the true, 
intelligent cause, and governor of the universe. 

And if no other consideration were available, the violation of the Moral 
Law, by any God at once vitiates his existence at all. 

A God who hath denied the knowledge good and evil, and the hope of 
eternal life to man, and has allowed himself or his only begotten son, or to 
speak in plain terms, the Holy Ghost's second son, since John the Baptist, is 
six months the elder, to be crucified in the form of a man, as an atonement and 



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reconciliation of his own betrayal of a disregard for the intuition of truth and 
right, or the faculty of reason in man, which is the primal condition of rational 
existence upon the earth at all; to ascribe in any manner such a God, and such 
conduct to the true ruler of the universe, is an utter debasement and downright 
mockery to the human mind. 

Yet, such a flagrant mistake or profanation, even, can never harm the 
Supreme Being, in the least; but it might if indulged in, cause the moral atrophy 
of the christian. It may be laid down as an axiom, that nature's laws which are 
the decrees in the universe of the one only Supreme Being; and when known 
by an individual, become the correlative truths of his mind, and a contradiction 
to such, whether thought, spoken or T\Titten by man, priest or prophet, is 
spurious and false, and its converse is as valid, that is, whatever agrees as matter 
of thought, spoken or written with nature's laws may in a sense be counted 
axiomatic genuine and the voice of the Supreme Being; hence it is more than 
manifest that all such dogmas as the Christian Religion is founded on, as ex- 
pressed by the words: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 
made alive, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in 
the transgression" which in turn is contradicted by the dogma, expressed by the 
words: ''Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by 
sin so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " 

Now then any man that hangs his destiny upon these self-impeached false- 
hoods, must be preeminently suffering for an opiate in the form of a belief to 
dim his powers. 

Are you sorry that Original Sin is a fraud and a falsehood, that is, are you 
sorry that sin abounds less than you thought for; and that Adam's act was a 
virtue, instead of a sin in rejecting a command for ignorance and idiocy. Does 
it make you sad, to be undeceived, is a mother sad on the correction of a false 
report, that her child was drowned if so, she did not love her child. Are you sad 
upon the correction of the false report of Original Sin, the fall of man, total 
depravity; if so you did not love truth, before so well as you loved deception, 
since you hate to be undeceived. 

Jonah, the clergyman, could not bear to be disappointed, and waited Nero- 
like to see the city burn, and was angry when he became convinced that they 
were not wicked enough to take fire. When Louis, the Fourteenth, as the legend 
goes, was made aware of the report that the Cardinal's death was false by his 
living presence, Richelieu asked, are 3'ou sorry. Sire, that I still live? No, but 
such artifice! Not mine, replies the Cardinal. Look elsewhere. 

Most men who are wedded to falsehood become uncomfortable if you remove 
the deception, but those wedded to truth, welcome its messages, ''come what 
come, may." The christian dogma of I Cor. 15:22, which states, "For as in 
Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," by every principle of 
ethics known to the Moral Law, is false ; but its contradictory which would read : 
"For as in Christ all die (by their indefensible assent to a felony, which 
yields the maxim theoretically 'particeps criminis') even so in Adam (by his 
uncompromising allegiance to the Moral Law, as an example) shall all be made 
alive," which merely needs the form of language to display its incontestable 
truth. 



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The fact that the New Testament itself, contradicts this dogma, as it 
stands in the context by loading the transgression on to Eve, and thereby 
reducing it to utter nullity, is of infinitely less consequence than the fact that the 
act in this fable ascribed to Adam, is in itself a virtue of the highest merit; 
and that his disobedience was in perfect accordance with the command of the 
Moral Law. 

Are you sorry that Adam's act has turned out a virtue, which cancels the 
purpose of Christ's advent, crucifixion and existence outright. No, replies 
the Proselyte, but such artifice! Not mine, look elsewhere. But replies the 
other, I cannot bear to be undeceived: 

The mirror gives you too correct a likeness of your truth. The conduct 
of Adam, even though fiction gives rise to an example; that was followed against 
oppression in the struggle of the American Colonies, A. D. 1776, and agrees with 
every sentiment of purity and right: Therefore, the dogma of Original Sin of 
Adam, being a falsehood, by the God's word of the New Testament, when the 
false and malicious libel was shifted by the anonymous writer, in the name of 
a tent-maker, on to Eve; and the command in the outset being immoral, since 
its disobedience is commanded by the Moral Law, the dogmas of atonement 
and regeneration of Emperor Theodosius, under the guise to make reparation 
for Adam's disobedence to an unreasoned, immoral command, and threat to 
compel ignorance is a falsehood; and that too, one, which is indefensible and 
immoral in itself; and such verses as are contained in Rom. 5:12, '^Wherefore as 
by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all 
men, for that all have sinned, "and I Cor. 15:22, ''For as in Adam all die, even 
so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

All such verses are meaningless contradictions and are positively of no 
validity, whatsoever; thus a Bible, that in effect, states: the dogma, that all 
men are accomplices in the disobedience of Adam. 

With the audacity of statement and circumvention of virtue, into its 
opposite vice, and then, to make the absurdity doubly conspicious, contradicts 
itself by the statement that ''Adam was not deceived, but the woman being 
deceived was in the transgression, " consignes the chief dogma of Christianity 
to an absurdity, which is doubly incongruous; but its chief deformity lays in 
its positive contradiction to the Moral Law. 

But by higher criticism^ it is claimed these dogmas are of the past; let not 
the indifferent for a moment think so. If a tyrant or despot were enthroned 
in the United States of America, at this instant, not one iota would a dogma 
in the Christian Religion be changed. 

Precisely the same dogmas are believed here in the United States of Amer- 
ica, that oppression reared for the complete servitude of the masses under 
Emperor Theodosius. All of which must operate upon the mind according to 
their purpose. 

And, but for the public press the public schools, the divorce of church and 
state, there is absolutely nothing to warrant the citizens of America, against a 
repetition of the conditions that soldered brass dog-collars upon the necks of 
two-thirds of the male population of England during the eighth century, when 



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the Church in the Ascendant, the Tool of the Tyrant was at its Zenith. 

Teach truth and the love of truth will grow. But a fable for obedience to 
tyranny enjoining ignorance and oppression, in a country of equal rights — 
invented to crush every human aspiration for human perfection and eternal 
life with Christianity's pet Idol, Jesus, extolling the servil Ninevite, who upon 
the testimony of the Jewish God in the Book of Jonah, could not distinguish the 
right hand from the left, extolling such as the standard of human perfection^ 
and when the aspirations of the men of Antioch arose within them to resist the 
oppression of double taxation imposed by their Emperor, Theodosius, the Great, 
— this pet idol or the pictorial Jesus, was forced by the writer to take sides with 
his Emperor and launched the anathema against the men of Antioch — that 
the men of Nineveh, who are steeped in ignorance and human slavery until 
they are unable to distinguish the right hand from the left, — and who even 
fasted and sack-clothed their cattle, if so be their God might change his mind; 
and such is the standard — that shall rise in judgment with these citizens of 
Antioch, and shall condemn them, for resisting double tax as did the colonies 
of America, A.D.1776. Such insidious knavery thrust upon the guileless masses, 
taken as and for the standard of human perfection, and the maxim that the 
Christian God, formerly the Jewish God, only shows his power when he contra- 
dicts the orders, laws, and decrees of the Supreme Being, smoothed over with 
the saying, ''Everything is possible with God. " 

Such a falsehood thrust upon the unthinking masses as and for the truth, 
and accepted confidingly into their minds, will operate upon both mind and 
body like the Upas or deadly Nightshade, and this is the main cause, that is to 
say, a God attributed with every crime in the catalogue, set up as standard ; 
and not so much the liquor traffic that fills your hospitals, your insane asylums, 
alms houses and jails, all of which are unknown, even among savages; if you 
sow falsehood you must reap corruption. If by the imputation of Original 
Sin, you sow falsehood and by the imputation that crucifixion is essential to 
virtue, and redemxption, you sow crime, you must then reap the corruption 
attentand thereon. 

That rancorous formula of despotism, ''For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive" is the foundation of the Christian Religion and 
is the creed of Christianity. 

But if the mind in its unquestioned acceptance makes this insidious plan 
of theological knavery its truth, creed or maxim of life, it is a wolf set guard 
to your babes, and an assassin to your bed. 

Your mistaken confidence in wolf or assassin, will not a whit alter their 
natures. Everything poison is to the body, falsehood is to the mind, and 
whether taken with the knowledge of its effect or not; they will operate accord- 
ing to their natures. 

Any religious sect, which worships Adam's immoral, imaginary pictorial 
God, which punishes an act of virtue in Adam and protects an act of vice in 
Cain, or worships King Ahaz's time riddle, Immanuel, interpreted by the church 
to be a "God with us" or a Jesus, just because the church voted that such a 
figure of rhetoric could be used as such, like the Goddess Diana, when they 



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positively know that the Jewish God, or God of Hosts, or God with us, or the 
Goddess Diana, are neither, or any of them, any part or parcel of the Supreme 
Being, whose intelligence and laws govern this universe, and whose Moral Law 
is the positive, and unmistakable line of demarkation which separates all 
false Gods, as well as men from the true; such sect is reveling in sin against 
light, and instead of enjoying progression, retrogression is their destiny. 

Do you still ask wherein Adam's God was immoral? He was immoral in 
the issuance of a command prohibiting knowledge, which is positively com- 
manded by the Moral Law. Do you ask in what relation or application the 
Savior was immoral? His use as a victim of indefensible slaughter, to be assent- 
ed to by the christian, as a gift for salvation from his God, which is the most 
consummate immorality; likewise his non-resistance or indefensible obedience 
to the ''death of the cross, " or the willing sacrifice of his life to perpetuate indis- 
criminate obedience, is positively immoral; and this pretention to forgive acts 
commanded by the Moral Law, is in downright defiance of the ordinances of 
the Supreme Being, and a desecration of the intuition of right, set up to guard 
the temple of the soul, against the wrong. 

Such are some of the contradictions of law, right and discretion, to which 
the christian is subjected by his dogmas. In Gal. 4:22:23:24, are the words; 
*'For is it written that Abraham had two sons, one by a bond-maid, another 
by a free woman^ one after the flesh, the other by way of promise, which Things 
ARE AN Allegory" which means these characters are myths, and it follows by 
necessity that all descendants from mythical characters are good for being 
myths; and since the genealogies of Matt, and Book Luke, indicate that one 
Jesus Christ, derives his origin through Joseph and the allegorical Abraham, 
verified Luke. 3:34, thus it stands, in the form of a syllogism, all descendants 
from mythical characters are myths; Jesus Christ is such descendant: there- 
fore Jesus Christ is a myth. The major premiss, is verified Gal. 4:24. In the 
Book of Acts, 2:30, wherein are found the words, ''David being a prophet, and 
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the first fruit of his loins, 
according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. " And 
Acts, 2:36, "Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath 
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 

Now then, this Jewish God by the written narrative of an inspired bishop 
or scribe, swears: that Jesus in the flesh is of the loins of David, of whom his 
father Joseph, was a descendant, verified Luke 1:27. 

Now if this Jewish God, can be believed at all, it is when he is under oath; 
but Matt. 1:18, contradicts the sworn testimony of this witness, in the follow- 
ing manner when it says, "Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost, 
AND Joseph knew her not, until she had brought forth her first-born son, and 
he called his name Jesus. 

Thus, it is demonstrated that the lineage from Abraham is not only a 
myth, but is contradicted even though confirmed by oath of the Jewish God. 
Yet, this incontestable evidence is disputed by the anonymous writer of Matt. 
1:18, and one origin or the other must be false. 

Did the decision of three hundred and eighteen bishops, A. D. 325, at Nicea, 



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which caused Emperor Constantime, to exclaim, ''What three hundred bishops 
have ordained is none other than the Seed of the only Son of God/' Does 
this origin make the Savior Jesus any less fabulous? 

A. D. 359, at Rimini and Selucia six hundred bishops and a prodigious 
number of priests, declared the Seed of Constantine's council null and void; 
but when Original Sin came into attention twenty-two years later, or A. D. 
381, an object of redemption was wanted, so that the time riddle of Isaiah, was 
brought to the front, which had completed its purpose, eleven hundred years 
previous, in another relation to-wit: the termination of fear, notwithstanding 
this fact, or the fact of Adam's disobedience having been already absolved by 
Adam's exile, yet to atone for Original Sin, this riddle must yield our Lord and 
Savior, Jesus Christ, in order to expiate the same sin over again. 

Sins at that period, being so exceedingly scarce that it was necessary to 
apply two remedies to a single sin. The said bishops with Original Sin on their 
hands, saw things in a different light, so they revived from oblivion the acts of 
council, cancelled at Rimini, and with them the object of redemption: the said 
bishops voted that the word ''Virgin" of Isa. 7:14, should be designated the 
"Virgin Mary," and the word "Immanuel" should be apostatized "God with 
us," the "anointed" or "Jesus Christ," as soon as born, Jesus was named by 
Joseph. It was voted that the Holy Ghost should be Lord and Giver of Life, 
and that Jesus Christ should be an object of worship. Then the first formula 
was voted on, viz: "Jesus Christ was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin 
Mary. " 

But can the work of this Emperor's bishops, that consumed a year of 
theological wrangle to get this Jesus apostatized from the word " Immanuel'' 
Fathered, Mothered, grown, crucified, buried, risen and seated, make the charac- 
ter any less fabulous, than his descent from David under oath of the Jewish God 
from the allegorical Abraham, in the genealogies of Matthew and Luke. By 
the order of Jewish reckoning, over four thousand years were consumed through 
the allegorical Abraham, to beget his father Joseph, on the one hand, on the 
other, in open defiance of the Jewish God's oath, that a Savior must come from 
the loins of David, by the infallible votes of the Emperor's bishops, a single 
year was employed with the aid of King Ahaz's time riddle which is copied 
bodily as verse 23 of Matthew, Chapter one, to originate, grow, crucify and seat 
him beside the Jewish God forever. 

With his council endowed attribute of Giver of Life, I should pronounce 
his father the Holy Ghost of the Jewish God, full as fabulous, as his step-father, 
Joseph, from the allegorical Abraham. The said bishops vote that the said 
object shall be attributed with divine worship. All this performance dogma- 
tized in the Book Matthew, agrees with the acts of council A. D. 381, to-wit: 
an object of divine worship, which function the New Testament displays through- 
out his dramatic career. 

His existence as dramatized in the New Testament, has been made actual 
by belief, worship and imitation with a greater vehemence than as though it 
had been historic eventual facts; but this should stagger no christian Prose- 
lyte. Moses was made a God of the Old Testament, Exodus 7:1, Augustus 



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Caesar was made one by the Roman Senate, A, D. 14, and divine worship was 
ascribed to him, and temples were erected to his honor. Incense was burned 
to him by his priests, (the same as Zacharias burnt to the Jewish God, before 
He was reduced to a trinity) ; this is the same Zacharias who was struck dumb 
for nine months for requesting a reason. Marcus Aurelius Antonius, was 
pronounced a God by the united voice of the Roman Senate, and divine worship 
was accorded him, A.D. 180. ^'He established a home for orphan girls, and tax 
claims of the poor were burned in the forum.'' Not much like the tyrant Theo- 
dosius, founder of Original Sin and redemption, who burnt the tax-payer in the 
City of Antioch, (for resisting double tax) in place of the written claim. 

But for the explicitness of Christ's birth in Matthew, 1:18 to 23, inclusive, 
as fathered by the Holy Ghost and no other ; and all the Jewish and New Testa- 
ment evidence. Gal. 4:24, of the fabulous character of the Book of Genesis, 
still the writers of the New Testament go right on, in the name of tent-makers 
and fishermen, mindless of these incidents, which they would have believed as 
events; and publish the genealogy of Jesus from Adam through Abraham, and 
Joseph, which was the son of Heli. 

Luke 3:23, states, ''And Jesus Himself began to be about thirty years of 
age, being as was supposed the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli," 
and so on to Adam. Acts 13:23, of the Seed of David the Jewish God ''raised 
unto Israel a Savior Jesus. " What is this genealogy with the equivocal" Being 
as was supposed the son of Joseph" published, in the name of tent-makers and 
fishermen for, who were on the ground at the time, and wrote it, (and one of 
them to make his disposition conspicious in New Testament narrative, cut off 
the ear of the High Priest's servant), which genealogy, Matt. 1:18, contradicts 
as certainly as truth does falsehood. Do these falsifying narratives affect the 
learned, or are they a snare to the unwary mind of the masses. 

God the Father was not originated by "Mary the Mother of God," until 
A. D. 431, and God the Son was not originated by "the Virgin Mary, " till A. D. 
381. God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost were voted objects of worship 
A. D. 381. But since the New Testament is dated back 387 years from the 
acts of this council; and forward from that date, or 6 B. C, to 96 A. D., so that 
all the worship ascribed to God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, from 5 B. C, 
to A. D. 381, did not have even the basis of good fiction. 

Acts 4:8 are the words: "Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said, this is the 
stone which was set at naught of your builders which is become the head and 
corner. " This is the Simon Peter who had warmed himself by the fire at the 
denial, but the climate being so changeable right after the resurrection that he " 
was fishing stark naked. But, when he heard the Lord on the shore girt his 
fisher's coat unto him, and cast himself into the sea; this is the Simon Peter 
before whose rebuke Annias and Sapphira dropped dead. This Simon Peter 
is the principal decoy that one hundred and fifty bishops use John 21 :24. "This 
is the disciple which testified of these things and wrote these things, 
and WE KNOW that his testimony is true." This is the Simon Peter that 
one hundred and fifty ordained bishops use as a mouth piece, in Acts 4:11 : 12:13, 
to say, "This is the stone (meaning Jesus at the council of six hundred bishops 



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at Rimini and Selucia, A. D. 359, when and where he was ruled a mere figment 
of fiction.) Which was set at naught of you builders, which (A. D. '381 by vote 
of one hundred and fifty bishops) is become the head and corner. Neither is 
there salvation in any other. For there is none other name under heaven 
given among men whereby we must be saved." ''Now, when they saw, the 
boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignor- 
ant MEN, they marvelled." Is there a shadow of doubt that these fishermen 
are the principal decoys that one hundred and fifty anonymous bishops use as 
both history and the writers of it, on to whom they father their own inventions. 
Now then we have the object of atonement born according to Isaiah's riddle 
of time, fathered and worshipped according to the decree of one hundred and 
fifty bishops crucified, buried, risen and seated all according to precedent or 
prophecy and sustained by the vote of one hundred and fifty bishops, every- 
thing moves like clock work until the scheme strikes and is wrecked by the 
moral law, which is everywhere and always the law of the Supreme Being 
before which Adam's disobedience stands justified. The life of the soul is its 
agreement with eternal principles and with itself. The figurative death of the 
soul is its contradiction, whether by inadvertence or design, of eternal princi- 
ples and itself. The degree of seriousness or importance you ascribe to these 
verities by squaring your life with them is religion. 

Since the New Testament contains in substance the acts of council, under 
Theodosius, A. D. 381, and being used as a text-book among christians, its 
legends have been imitated, and its objects of worships have been worshipped; 
its trinity of Pagan Gods, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, have by certain 
sects been used as objects of adoration, according to decree of council, A. D. 381, 
at the time when Original Sin and redemption were completed, and Jater were 
formulated and written by anonymous bishops, and set down as inspired narra- 
tive in the New Testament; Supreme Being or no Supreme Being! by bishops 
who were so reckless that they bring King Herod into the scene, Matthew 2:8, 
whose death beyond all doubt by Josephus, occurred three hundred and twenty- 
nine years previous to the time when the object of redemption was generated 
as Seed by the vote of three hundred and eighteen bishops, A. D. 325, at the 
council of Nicea; but who did not emerge from parentage by vote until A. D. 
381, at the aforesaid council. 

When and where his father, the Holy Ghost, his mother, the Virgin Mary, 
came into existence and the use of the church by the vote of one hundred and 
fifty ordained bishops, by whom, when and where, the principle dogmas of the 
Christian Religion, were first authorized by council, and are in force and effect 
in the evangelical churches of Christendom to-day, with the exception of baptism 
and the origin of God the Father, from ''Mary the mother of God," the later 
of which came fifty years later, or A. D. 431. 

What do men of the indomitable prowess of Emperor Theodosius, or 
flourish of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, St. John Chryrsostom, or St. Jerome, care 
for dates, men, or accuracy, when what they said the Holy Ghost of their own 
make must inspire, and the acts of their own council seal as infallible; and any 
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for such a presumptous offense against authority, is struck dumb on the spot, 
as in Luke 1^0, or a Sarah chased into a Lie of denial for a Smile at absurdity, 
as is set forth in Genesis, 1:15. 

According to Matt. 1:18, and Luke 1:35, a Savior from the Seed of David, 
NEVER EXISTED at all; as is set forth in Luke 3:23, by the words, ''Being as 
was supposed the son of Joseph" or as set forth in Acts 13:22:23, ''Of the Seed 
of David, God according to His promise raised unto Israel a Savior Jesus; but 
this promise (of II Sam'l. 7:12, B, C. 742, could have no reference to the lineage 
of the object of redemption, which lineage through Joseph, Matt. 1:18, is cut 
completely off, by the Holy Ghost with the prerogative as Giver of Life, con- 
ferred upon him by the church, verified Matt. 1:18) is not genuine, for three 
hundred years later, or B. C. 712, Isa. 43:10:11, states, in plain terms that all 
other Gods and Saviors are spurious, by the inspired prophet of the Jewish 
God, Isaiah. And since no mention is made of one hundred and fifty bishops, 
by whose votes it must be accomplished, this artificial fulfillment by Theodo- 
sius' council is spurious. 

The Jesus of the Book Matthew, derives his prophetic origin from the time 
riddle of Isa. 7:14, of B. C. 742, or the word "Virgin" and "Immanuel" con- 
tained therein used in an abstract sense to signify the elapse of time; but this 
sign is the material that must be racked and tortured to yield a second func- 
tion eleven and twenty years later, or A. D. 381, when one hundred and fifty 
bishops vote that the word "Virgin" shall be apostatized to "Virgin Mary," 
and the word "Immanuel" apostatized to the phrase, "God with us," "Jesus 
Christ or the Anointed." 

And by the mouth of Joseph, in the context, this Immanuel, Matt. 1 :25, 
is called Jesus, the Son's Father, Matt. 1:18, is called in the context the Holy 
Ghost, formulated by the church A. D. 381, reads, "Jesus Christ is incarnate by 
the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary. " 

At this council of Constantinople, originated all such fictions in the his- 
tory of Christ as, parentage, birth, life, object of worship, crucifixion, burial, 
resurrection, forty days furlough and ascension from earth to sky; then follows 
the New Testament, backed by the Septaugint, and Vulgate of St. Jerome, with 
words but contradicted as is the case with dogmas of Original Sin and redemption 
in meaning: in which the drama sets forth the conception, birth, worship, life, 
persecution, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, furlough and ascension together 
with all of the necessary incidentals which a flourish of rhetoric and an elabora- 
tion could fill in as Devils, Vipers, Worshippers, Blind Guides, who strain at a 
gnat and swallow a camel; and missionaries, whose Proselytes of the Jewish 
God in unity or trinity, are two-fold more the children of Hell than the mis- 
sionaries themselves. 

Thus the Jesus of the New Testament derives his origin for the use of the 
church at the council of Constantinople convoked by Emperor Theodosius, 
A. D. 381, when and where all the ficticious incidents in chief of the Jesus of 
Matthew 1:18, and Luke 1:35, originated (together with Isa. 7:14, with what 
meaning was by foisted by the church upon it) by vote of one hundred and 
fifty bishops, and were fixed upon, by their infallible decree, as dogmas that 



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must be accepted, and believed by all the Proselytes, of Christianity in order to 
remove their inherited taint, of Adam's disobedience, to the authority of com- 
mand, where moral reasons are not allowed in any manner to interfere, whether 
in realms of despotism, or governmental republics, where the voice of the nine 
faculties and the twelve, otherwise, infallible intuitive ideas of truth and rights 
are hushed and impeached and the dogmas of despots in matters of religion still 
prevail as they do to-day in the United States of America. 

In the first chapter of Matthew, where some of the acts of council, are 
elaborated in the exhibition of the prenatal conditions of the object of redemp- 
tion, a Feint is attempted by a dream in order to reconcile Joseph's emotions 
to the situation of being step-father to this off-spring of the Holy Ghost and 
Virgin Mary, of Matt. 1:18, also in order that the person Jesus, might in some 
manner appear to be the off-spring David of Old Testament fame, as in Isa. 
7:13, (the verse which preceeds the one from which the Savior Jesus accord- 
ing to the church originated) are the words addressed to King Ahaz, ''Hear ye 
now Oh house of David, " and in Luke 1:27, are the words, ''Whose name was 
Joseph of the House of David" and Matt. 15:22 is this prayer "Have mercy on 
me. Oh Lord, Thou Son of David." 

But all these phrases by the use of the words. Son of David, are rendered 
positively invalid by the work of the Holy Ghost as expressed Matt. 1:18. 
Nevertheless, with all this dash of Augustinian modesty, when the arrangement 
is fixed up and this Jesus is offered to the Jews as a child of David, they point 
to the councils of Nicea, A. D. 325, and Constantinope, A. D. 381; they point to 
Original Sin, already absolved by Adam's exile inflicted by their own God; they 
point to the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary, who are created in downright 
mockery of their expectation of a Savior from the lineage of David, saying, 
you cannot date back from the acts of your council from which these fictions 
originated three hundred and eighty-seven years, and catch us with your ficti- 
tious Jesus even if it is for our financial interest in dealing with you to do so. 
The work of your councils is too thin; your manufactured Jesus may do for you, 
but never for us. 

Your nefarious artifice of Original Sin in the interest of oppression, is base 
and false, the sin of disobedience, was expiated four thousand three hundred 
and eighty-seven years ago, by Adam himself, and his punishment was inflicted 
by the Jewish God Himself; and your Jesus is reared to expiate the same offense 
in downright blasphemy and utter mockery to our God's disposal of Adam's 
case. 

Your fictitious plan of redemption, is an Effect without a Cause, since 
Adam's exile by cancellation is an utter defeat of your dogma of Redemption 
as well as of Original Sin. 

Just as your dogma of Original Sin would as well fit the fable of Noah's 
Ark, so will your dogma of redemption as well fit the fabulous John the Baptist. 
He is fathered by the same Holy Ghost that fathered your Jesus and the Angel 
Gabriel's word for it. He is six months the eldest. It consumed four thousand 
three hundred and eighty-seven of our legendary years, at least to get your 
Joseph into the New Testament; but your mills at Nicea, Rimini and Constan- 



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tinople skilled in the making and unmaking of Gods, turned out this Jesus and 
placed Him beside the throne of our God in just fifty-six years. 

In your fables of Luke 1:15, your Angel Gabriel, told Zacharias that '^ John 
shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine, or strong 
drink, and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother's womb, 
and many of the children of Israel shall be turned to the Lord their God, and 
He shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of 
the fathers to their children" not against one another, as is charged up to your 
Jesus, and the disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just, not to insensible obedi- 
ence, as are words apostatized for the purpose of Isa, 7:14, and Gen. 2:17, from 
our Holy Scriptures, by your church on which to rear the dogmas of Original 
Sin and redemption. 

Zacharias, when told by the Angel Gabriel that his wife Elizabeth should 
have a child, asked, ''whereby shall I know this, being a priest and burning 
incense at the altar" of our God? Zacharias wanted evidence and reason, as 
did the Virgin Mary, and Adam and Eve, but the Angel Gabriel in the employ 
of our God, reprehends a reasoner, thus, Luke 1:19, ''I am Gabriel, that 
stand in the presence of God and am Sent to speak unto thee and shew thee 
these Glad Tidings." 

Clergymen of the Jewish God, need have no fear whatever of getting into 
his heaven, if this Angel Gabriel did not serve time on earth, (in the anony- 
mous bishops' imagination) as an ordained minister or priest of this Jewish 
God, then to detect the profession, words are no sure guide. To whom (Zach- 
arias) Gabriel further replied, ''Thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak until 
the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my 
words. " 

Thus Zacharias is made at once as silent as a quadruped, because he doubted 
and that too, after the Jewish God had concluded all in unbelief as a target to 
his mercy; and the man or priest Zacharias, is thus left a mere speeechless 
Proselyte or Child of Hell to make up the show. 

Thus the innocent priest, gives you only what he is obliged to accept wholly 
upon the authority of his Angel bishop, who is a co-partner with his Jewish God 
•and with his Emperor Theodosius, the Great. 

Such is the Holy imagination of the bishop that writes this drama that in 
his attempt to paint up the subordinate characters of his priest, Zacharias, and 
Angel Gabriel, that he has left the foot-prints of his own professional arrogance 
as a Christian Bishop; by pushing his Gabriel to the utterance of his own tyran- 
nical sentiments. 

But, be it forever to the consolation of all clergymen of this character, that 
in the Jewish God's Heaven, in the place of handling Jews-Harps, they will be 
obliged to face their own doctrine-made images, like Gabriel. Notwithstand- 
ing, that the penitent Proselytes, who assent to the crucifixion, are made at 
least "two-fold" more the children of Hell, than the clergy, who entices his 
victim to renounce Adam's virtue, or obedience to the Moral Law, and accept 
the crucifixion, which cancels his virtue by an assent to vice, and the clergy- 
man's knowledge of the fraud which is a lesser crime than assent to crucifixion 
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Luke 3:15 A. D., 26, states "All Men mused in their hearts of John 
whether He were the Christ or not." Where in all the Roman Empire, or 
in the writer's imagination, was Jesus Christ, A. D, 27? Nevertheless, since 
iihe Jewish God, Luke, 3:8, was ''Able of these stones to raise up children unto 
Abraham." How so? Why, by using them at the heads of the opposition. 
What was there to hinder Emperor Theodosius, the Great from swinging his 
theological derrick, and dropping the corner stone, for the dogma of redemption 
upon John the Baptist, as the legend goes? He was fathered by the same Holy 
Ghost that fathered Jesus, mothered by Elizabeth, the Virgin Mary's cousin, 
pronounced by the mouth of Jesus, Matt. 11:11, saying, ''And among them that 
are Born of Woman there hath not risen a Greater Prophet than John the 
Baptist, " which forever makes sure the fact that if the Virgin Mary was a 
woman, John the Baptist, was the greater prophet, which couples John's destiny 
for oblivion with his own. Fiction changed to event, John was as good a vic- 
tim for the use of the throne to atone for Adam's virtue used against its vice, 
that aroused the Jewish God against his races, and as an object of worship, 
the Fetich is as good; but Elizabeth was no Virgin, as was the incident in the 
metaphor or sign of Isa. 7:14, and that settles it. 

St. Jerome had not served time to rear his Vulgate upon ancient lore, and 
then play ignorant of what were the essentials to rear a Pagan God; but the 
name John, don't fit the votes of council, the word "Immanuel" as interpreted 
by the church, does, as instanced Matt. 1:18 to 23. 

St. Gregory, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, the flourishing characters 
during the reign of Theodosius the Great, and their coadjutors are the ones to 
whom Christendom is indebted for its dogmas of Original Sin and redemption, 
and the New Testament their elaborator and voucher. 

In spite of the Jewish God's judgment and execution for Adam's exile 
and in spite of Isa. 43:11, stating, "Beside me there is no Savior," and in spite 
of atonement for sin, with the blood of bulls and goats, Original Sin of their 
own invention must be expiated with the blood and body of a God, no less of 
their own make, verified Heb. 9:22, " Without shedding of blood is no remission. " 

Heb. 10:4, states, "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats 
should take away sins." Heb. 10:19, states "We are sanctified through the 
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. " 

All this elaboration and formulated dogma, arises from the Book of He- 
brews, first known to the church A. D. 397, and the story goes, that it was 
procured (not written by) St. Jerom.e of a Nazerene of Berea, which leaves no 
doubt in the author's mind that the Book of Hebrews is the work of St. Jerome 
himself. 

But St. Gregory's dogma of Original Sin, is reared upon an Act, commanded 
by the Moral Law, a virtue transmuted by the church to a sin. And by the 
dogma of the Original Sin of Adam, which the church has distributed equally 
and fractionally in all men, and redemption by confessing Christ, which means 
an indefensible assent to his crucifixion as a condition of absolution from Adam's 
sin, already expiated unless the Jewish God's decrees have no validity at all; 
and the belief of his resurrection from the dead, another condition which was 



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positively unknown either in theory, belief or practice during the reign of Valens, 
which ended by his death at Adrianople, A, D. 378 (while being treated in a 
peasant's cabin for a wound, the cabin was fired and Valens was burned alive 
in the building.) Thus, the Christian Religion, had its origin by reasonable 
evidence from secular history, (which is expressed by the dogma, I Cor. 15:22, 
'Tor as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,) at the council 
of Emperor Theodosius the Great, A. D. 381, except baptism, which alone con- 
stituted the religion of the empire under Valens, A. D. 378, to whom secular 
history ascribes the grant, that a million of Visi-Goths might enter the Roman 
Empire for protection from the devastating Hunns, on condition of surrender 
of arms, and submission to baptism^ which is important to show that at the 
time A. D. 378, the dogmas of Original Sin and redemption in Jesus, were posi- 
tively unknown, either in belief, theory or practice, throughout the Roman 
Empire from Spain to Egypt; which is an additional demonstration of the 
time when, place where, and by whom the dogmas of Original Sin and redemp- 
tion for it, were originated; which was, as has been repeatedly pointed out, A. D. 
381, at Constantinople by one hundred and fifty ordained bishops, from Europe, 
Asia and Africa, with St. Gregory, president of the Council in the lead. And 
St. Jerome of A. D. 342-430, with a sufficient knowledge under Gregory of the 
Septaugint to produce the Vulgate, the evidence is good that the doctrines of 
the Christian Religion were commenced in earnest for the religion of the empire 
A. D. 381, and were booked in the New Testament before St. Augustine's death, 
which occurred A. D. 430; being then seventy-six years of age, and all the more 
evident since the year following his death at the council of Ephesus, the Virgin 
Mary was made by act of council, ''Mary the Mother of God" the Father, which 
nowhere appears upon the pages of the New Testament; but the book being 
saturated, from Matthew to Revelation, with the said bishops dogma of Original 
Sin, together with its counterpart, redemption in Jesus for that sin, which 
dogmas were positively unknown during the reign of Valens A. D. 378, from 
Spain to Egypt, and the fact that the Book of Hebrews was unknown to the 
church until A. D. 397, and the further fact that the Book of Revelation, which 
the author believes to be the work of St. John Chrj^sostom, was made canonical 
A. D. 397 the evidence is reasonable that for those writings to contain the 
dogmas of Original Sin and redemption, with which they are mingled from 
first to last, and a dozen times in Romans, Chapter five, in which they are set 
down, both in formulas, and are synthetically related to each other in the 
form of cause and effect, showing that the entire volume is largely due to the 
efforts of the Latin Church, which originated the dogmas, and coupled by the 
use of the Vulgate of St. Jerome, who knew best how to elaborate upon those 
dogmas, and unite them with Old Testament prophecies, (the said Vulgate 
written from A. D. 389 to 404 which consumed fifteen years time in its pro- 
duction) in founding the Christian Religion and in the creation of its voucher, 
the New Testament. 

So this work, the New Testament, ascribed to Paul, Jesus, Peter, and a 
dozen shark-drivers as decoys, is the work of no less significant a body of 
personages than St. Gregory of Nazianzus, St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, 
St. Augustine and their contemporary coadjutors. Thus the New Testament 



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with its sublime dogmas of Original Sin and redemption, which for thought in 
both theory and practice has subverted the entire running order of the Moral 
Law of the Supreme Being. And being imitated in practice, has no less sub- 
verted the critical rationality and morality of its believers, which has made 
vice the rule, since christians believe that sin has passed upon all men (about 
ninety-five per cent, of whom are non-christian) born or to be born, forever 
throughout the earth, which is the rule, for ninety-five per cent, at least and 
virtue the exception, should the christian or five per cent, represent the creed 
that Adam's disobedience was so much a virtue, that the Jewish God's adjudicat- 
ed penalty, or Adam's exile was futile for absolution, which fact is acknowl- 
edged by the offer of the body of God the Son, as a sacrifice, to once more, if so 
be, appease the wrath of the Jewish God for the same offense ''once for all." 

Notwithstanding, the fact that in transcribing Original Sin and redemption 
into the writing of the New Testament, mere words of the Old were used as 
prophecies, absolutely divested of every meaning. 

Thus for the New Testament to contain all of the dogmas of the reign of 
universal sin, verified Gal. 3:22, '^The scripture hath concluded All Under 
Sin that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that be- 
lieve. " And the sublime remedy, Rom. 10:9, ''If thou shalt confess with thy 
mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him 
from the dead, thou shalt be saved." 

For the New Testament to contain these dogmas, as its creed in substance : 
framed by act of council, A. D. 381, and to exclude the dogma 
of A. D. 431, at Ephesus, where the ''Virgin Mary" was made "Mary the Mother 
of God, " the Father just as securely as in A. D. 381, she had been made by means 
of an hypostatic union, the Mother of King Ahaz's Son, of B. C. 742, called 
then by name Immanuel, and used as a rhetorical flourish in the context for 
the naming period of an infant. 

But the same word, "Immanuel" A. D. 381, when translated b}^ St. Greg- 
ory, and his bishop associates, is tortured to mean "God with us" as is verified 
beyond all preadventure. Matt. 1:23. 

The said bishops by vote decreed that the Holy Ghost was Lord and Giver 
of Life, and proceeded from God the Father; and at the council of Epesus, A. D. 
431, as before narrated, it was decreed that the "Virgin Mary," Mother of 
God the Son, by an hypostatic union with the Holy Ghost, was also "Mother 
of God" the Father, and A. D. 447, the council in Spain decreed that our Lord 
and Savior Jesus Christ, was Father of the Holy Ghost, of the Jewish God, in 
co-partnership with the Virgin Mary's God the Father, all of which was " decreed 
in France by act of council A. D. 1274, and later in Rome. " 

Thus for the New Testament to contain in unnumbered forms throughout 
its pages and a dozen times in Romans, Chapter five, the principal dogmas 
invented by act of council A. D. 381, and to exclude those of A. D. 431, and 447, 
(the most important of all to the Catholic faith, for the masses) the evidence 
is reasonable and valid that the New Testament had its origin between the 
dates A. D. 381, and A. D. 431. 

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coupled with such notions as they were able to gather from the primitive Pa- 
ganism of the Syrians and Egyptians; like the three men, who appeared to 
Abraham in the plains of Mamre on their way to Sodom; like the Savior on 
their way they washed and supped. 

Do you ask what was done by the church Militant and Triumphant previous 
to A. D. 381? Emperor Constantine, the founder of Constantinople and the 
first emperor; to head the new sect, whose only ordinance for redemption was 
baptism; whose crimes were of so heinous a nature from the murder of his son 
and wife, his wife's father, her brother and his son, that the Pagan religion of 
Rome refused him absolution; thus Constantine an exile, from his native altar, 
accepted absolution by baptism under the new sect of Pagans, called Guessens, 
afterward christians, the creed of which was, that of baptism alone, would 
bring about a change of heart, a new life, and absolution from sin. Constan- 
tine 's reign was from A. D. 306, to A. D. 337. He thus became a Guessen Pagan 
by baptism near the end of his life. A. D. 325, Constantine the Great, called 
the first general council at Nicea, Asia Minor; and at that council, three hun- 
dred and eighteen bishops by vote, made the attempt to divide the Jewish God 
into a trinity, or fractions of one-third each, which called forth the utterance 
from Constantine, the Great, '^What three hundred bishops have ordained, is 
none other than the Seed of the only Son of God." At that time A. D. 325, 
the Holy Ghost, had not emerged, from the Jewish God, so of course the 
parentage of the Savior could not have emerged, since the Holy Ghost, by 
Matt. 1:18, was his father. 

But since the Jewish God in unity alone, was a mere potter by trade, having 
made his first son, Adam, of clay, and the Holy Ghost, not yet emerged or 
lacking the appendage of Giver of Life, conferred upon him fifty-six years 
later, or A. D. 381, by the bishops then in council. 

In view of these fragments and disabilities from which to proceed, Emperor 
Constantius, Son of Constantine, convoked a council at Rimini and Selucia, 
A. D. 359, consisting of six hundred bishops, and a prodigious number of priests, 
where, all the fragmentary work of the council, of Constantine of A. D. 325, 
was declared void ;so that the origin of the Savior from that source was off, and laid 
on the table ;and baptism alone, as formerly, continued to redeem under the Jewish 
God in unity, until A. D. 381; so that up to A. D. 381, Original Sin and redemp- 
tion in Jesus, which is the Christian Religion other than Baptism, was posi- 
lively unknown, either in form, as a text narrative, theory or practice. Thus 
the attempt to raise a Savior from the fragments known, A. D. 325 passed into 
oblivion A. D. 359, and stayed in oblivion until Original Sin was invented, by 
St. Gregory's council A. D. 381; which according to the Holy inspiration of one 
hundred and fifty bishops, there was necessitated a Savior to atone for it, and 
he was forthcoming from King Ahaz's time riddle, first delivered by the Jewish 
God for the comfort of King Ahaz, B. C. 742, and which completed its purpose 
as a time relation, B. C. 739, by the death of Pekah, King of Isreal; but which 
time riddle was tortured until it yielded for the purpose of Original Sin the 
Virgin Mother of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; first a flourish of rhetoric 
for time, next, the parentage of the Holy Trinity, whose mythical nature like 
the three men with Abraham, could never include the Supreme Being. 



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Now then, does the New Testament set forth St. Gregory's acts of Original 
Sin, and redemption? If so, you have its origin, practically in both date and 
incidents in chief, in spite of the clandestine dates upon its pages. This coun- 
cil made Jesus Christ an object of worship. ''Wise men from the East came to 
worship him." Matt. 2:2:10, Hreod said, "Bring me word that I may come 
and worship him also; thus the writer to chain the masses, makes Herod wear 
their fetters" who, according to Josephus, had been dead three hundred and 
eighty-five years previous to this council's acts. 

When the wise men found him, they "fell down and worshipped him, "which 
agrees with the decrees yielding that attribute, the writers offering nothing 
in extenuation of such worship, as being fetich or idolatrous, manifestily show- 
ing that this worship conferred upon this member of the trinity, was permissible 
by decree of their own council, A. D. 381, and the trinity became a working 
church decree. But when the character Satan, a rival for the honor of being 
worshipped, tempted the character Jesus, to fall down and worship him, the 
narrator m^akes Jesus say, "Get thee behind me Satan, thou shalt worship 
Lord thy God; Him only shalt thou serve." 

Could this admonition -mean that Satan was to worship the speaker, who 
was then included in the trinity of Gods for the punishment of virtue? Accord- 
ing to this summary treatment of Satan, it must have been a severe trial of the 
fortitude of God the Son, to forego the temptation of so illustrious a rival. 
Also Matt. 14:33, are the words, "Then they that were in the ship, came and 
worshipped him, saying of a truth, thou art the Son of God. " Could this mean, 
thou art a one-third member of the trinity; also Mark 5:6, "But when he saw 
Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him;" also Matt. 28:9, "Jesus met them 
saying. All hail, and they came and held him by the feet, and worshiped him, 
and Jesus said, Be not afraid. " 

This was after the scene of the crucifixion, but the character has no appear- 
ance of Hamlet's Ghost, and talks as well as before; and the forty days exploits 
after the resurrection, are devoted to the scriptures in the establishment of 
his Messiahship, a task wholly unbecoming to the character. 

Also in Luke 24:52, are the words, after the resurrection, "and it came to 
pass while he blessed them, that he was parted from them and carried up into 
heaven, and they worshipped him." 

Thus all of these dramatic incidents of worship were lavished upon the 
character Jesus, with not one word of objection from him, that such worship 
might be Fetich, or Idolatrous, which is proof positive that when the Gospel 
was written, Jesus was a partner in the trinity, "and thought it not robbery to 
be equal with God," Phil. 2:6, and Matt. 28:18:19. And this same character's 
objection to the worship of Satan, who was envious of adoration, commanding 
him thus, "thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, Him only shalt thou serve. " 

Thus in open defiance of the worship of this Jesus by the characters in 
the drama throughout the New Testament, Satan alone, was admonished to 
confine His v/orship to the Jewish God. Now, apostatized into the Holy Trinity, 
which was another way of admonition from this Jesus, that Satan should worship 
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Thus Jesus was aware of his match in Satan, and unlike the rabble, which 
were worshipping Jesus, turns Satan over to God in Trinity and unity with 
the admonition, ''Him Only, shalt thou serve,'' which designation by implication, 
either admits the trinity in unity, or excludes both, God the Son and God the 
Holy Ghost from worship, by the Devil at least. 

Thus, Jesus from the rabble was accepting worship for Himself, which in 
His admonition to Satan, He ascribed as only due to God, by which unless He 
intended to include himself in the trinity, is self-contradictory. 

Does this masquerade, with the unity of the Holy Trinity, look as though 
it was the invention of fishermen, or that the character Jesus, was playing his 
own part, or is it more than manifest, that short-sighted bishops were managing 
his case for him in the interest of despotism, using him as an object of worship 
to emphasize the rule of forbearance, a declaration yielding seventy times 
seven, between fellow subjects and the license or passport for the authority of 
Rulers, Kings or Gods, to turn subjects over to the tormentors for the first 
offense, making him act and play his part in the interest of despotism with full 
pretention and arrogance, and to further emphasize his character as a license 
for their purpose by Matt. 1:23, in which he is designated by the anonymous 
bishops, a ''God with us," interpreted from the word "Immanuel, " a word 
which the original context ascribes to the Jewish God, to signify the naming 
period of an infant, as verified, Isa. 7:14, and copied bodily as Matt. 1:23, and 
by Phil. 2:6, he is designated thus, "Who being in the form of God thought it 
not robbery to be equal with God. '' 

Equality can in no possible manner in this connection stand for identity, 
and John 10:3 by the mouth of this Jesus, or "God with us" are the words, as a 
prologue to the Holy Trinity, "I and my father are one." Here is plurality 
expressed in unity or an integer bisected at the expense of the Holy Ghost who 
is robbed of his courtesy. The Jews (who are using precisely the same God, 
only less embellished, with a trinity of titles conferred upon him by acts of 
council; from the apostatization of meaningless words:) "answered him say- 
ing: for a good work we stone thee not but for blashemy and because that 
thou being a man makest thyself a God: "Verified John 10:33; here is an 
accusation of blasphemy against the Holy Trinity which was seconded as 
blasphemy two hundred and twenty years later by the spiritual leaders or 
Caliphs of the Mohammedans. " Whereupon this Jesus is made to answer them, 
Is it not written in your law (Ps. 82:6) I said Ye are Gods, if he call them 
Gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken 
say ye of him, whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, thou 
blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God. " 

This contradiction of the foregoing indicates a passport for a plurality 
of Gods. In Psalms, 82:6:7 are the words, "I have said ye are Gods and all 
of you are the children of the Most High, but ye shall die like men; " all of which 
furnished a passport and license for the pictorial death of the bishops, "God 
with us." Were not some of these Gods writers of scriptures, Exodus 7:1 
states, "And the Lord God said unto Moses, See I have made thee a God, to 
Pharaoh; (which accounts for so large a share of his narrative by the mouth of 
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Phil. 2:10:11:13, states, 'Hhat at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow 
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of 
God the Father." This indicates a plurality of Pagan Gods, but to bow the 
knee, or to confess a Christ, can never increase the glory of the Jewish God or 
cover his infamy and desecration ^of the Moral Law for the punishment of one 
single act of virtue in an Adam; or a Christ, whose narrated mission is to break 
down the virtue of Adam, which to the eternal shame and chagrin of the Jewish 
God, and which is still a thorn in the flesh of both him and his followers, and 
such can only be met by the bare-faced prowess contained in the utterance, 
'' Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump, to make one vessel 
to honor and another to dishonor (sure predestination when driven from the 
field of morals). 

What a sublime power, this Jewish God must be, who prohibited his clay 
made Adam the knowledge of good and evil, but because Adam did distinguish 
good from evil, which this God admitted made Adam, as one of Us, yet pun- 
ished him for it with nine hundred and twenty-nine years at hard labor. A 
most woeful and appalling abuse of power for a license and passport for the 
imitation of rulers. 

Then as though the punishment, was inadequate to the offense, the church 
takes up the case, opens it, and retries it, and decrees that a new sacrifice must 
be offered up in flattery to this God's insolence, in open and downright defiance 
of this Jewish God's oath to Abraham to bless all the nations of the earth, veri- 
fied Gen. 22:18, B. C. 1872, in open defiance of his flood to drown out all the 
wicked, in open defiance of his affirmation Isa. 43:10:11, which states, '^Before 
me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me, I even I am the 
Lord, and besides me there is no Savior," uttered B. C. 712. 

Yet in positive contradiction of the foregoing, the bishops of the church, 
arbitrarily and without warrant or justification from the context, which they 
use to back their work, raise from the word "Immanuel" Isa. 7:14, B. C. 742, 
Matt. 1:23, a ''God with us" or "a Savior, to give repentance to Israel and for- 
giveness of sins," verified Acts 5:31. And Col. 1:14 are the words, ''In whom 
we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. " 

Matt. 20:18, "Jesus took his twelve disciples apart, and said unto them, 
Behold ye go up to Jerusalem, and the son of man shall be betrayed unto the 
chief priests, and scribes and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver 
him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify him, and the third 
day he shall rise again." 

And Mark 8 :32 :33, " Peter rebuked him for his conversation which savored of 
his willingness or "obedience to the death of the cross" in advance "and he 
rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me Satan, " but Matt. 16:16:17, Since 
Peter called Jesus: "the Christ, " Jesus calls him "blessed, " all of which is good 
Jewish law: or rebuke for rebuke and flattery for flattery. "The son of man 
came to give his life a ransom to many" that is, for such as are predestined; 
also Matt. 22:44, are the words, "Set thou on my right hand, till I make thine 
enemies thine foot-stool," 

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throne of despotism? Do you observe the attitude that this character Jesus^ 
is compelled to assume, as an advance agent in violation of all rules of propriety 
for narrative, either of actual human conduct or fiction, that such with the 
rabble should add emphasis to his admonition in his declaration of seventy times 
seven as a rule of forbearance between fellow subjects, which, with the learned, 
makes the more conspicuous, this piece of Charlatan Quackery. 

Thus oppression makes all this fuss about this figment of fiction, which it 
uses in the name of a ''God with us, " which it crucifies and offers by narrative 
in pantomime a sacrifice, to appease the wrath of God, which comprehends the 
designations, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, Three in 
One. And all this, is done merely to show the masses the woeful enormity 
of disobedience under any and all circumstances; notwithstanding, if so be to 
the total wreck of the Moral Law, by an indefensible surrender of assent to 
crucifixion or homicide. 

Isa. 53:10, B. C. 712, ''Yet it hath pleased the Lord to punish him, he hath 
put him to grief when thou shalt make his Soul (not body) an offering for sin. " 
Heb. 10:10, states, " We are sanctified by the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ 
once for all. " and II Peter 2:24 are the words "Who bore our sins in his own 
body on the tree thus making soul and body mean the same thing. Psalms 
22:7:8, "They shake their head, saying. He trusted the Lord in that he would 
deliver him. " 

How good of Jerome, to furnish the church, from his Vulgate, such material 
for the New Testament. Thus, this character Jesus, is forced to anticipate the 
role he has to perform to the letter, coming from scraps of old legends in Isaiah 
and Psalms, when and where human victims must expiate with their souls 
disobedience to the chief. 

And this sacrifice is the victim of the part assigned him to perform by act 
of council, A. D. 381 ; also he is made acquainted with his part to act in Advance, 
of the tradegy, and talks as familiarly about his being killed as did Old Polonius, 
in the play of Hamlet, who said, "I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed in the 
capitol, Brutus killed me. " 

To whom Hamlet replies, "It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a 
calf there." Thus this sublime sacrifice for the sin of Adam's (Virtue) which 
the masses believe to be the acts of a human being, and a God in combination. 
Thus all are fixed up in advance by old legends and acts of council, which this 
hero performes no where but on the page of the drama, to which all his pan- 
tomimic acts are confined in the antedated fiction from B. C. 6, to A. D. 33. 

Then for all this talk, by him, to the twelve decoys about his crucifixion, 
death and resurrection, which all christian Proselytes believe to be the narrative 
of history, yet some of his own disciples on the word of others in order to make 
the deception complete, were made the first to doubt of his resurrection from 
the dead, like the jest of the horse-trader above referred to, "and he upbraided 
them for their unbelief and hardeness of heart, because they believe not them 
which had seen him after he was risen. " 

In other words, he upbraids them for their lack of belief in the impossible, 
to furnish a passport for the rebuke, thereafter of unbelievers, in the absurd, as 



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doubting Thomasses. Nevertheless, ^'he said unto them, go ye into all the 
world, and preach the Gospel to every creature, he that believeth and is bap- 
tized, shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned; notwithstanding 
the fact that God the Father, had concluded All in unbelief, that he might 
have Mercy upon all. 

There being no occasion for an object of atonement for a sin before that sin 
had been invented from Gen. 2:17, and settled upon by act of council, or revived 
in mockery of the Jewish God's decree, for Adam's exile; but the sin decreed 
regardless of the foregoing considerations, the object of atonement follows by 
the same theological necessity, and the same bishops, whose decrees passed upon 
the sin; decree that the word ''Immanuel" of Isa. 7:14, B. C. 742, shall be 
called ''God with us" or ''Jesus Christ," and the word "Virgin" the "Virgin 
Mary," that the Holy Ghost shall be the Lord and Giver of Life. That the 
words, "Virgin and Immanuel, " and the Holy Ghost, shall be apostatized and 
joined into a hypostatic union, and formulated the dogma reads, "Jesus Christ 
was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary," connected with Original 
Sin, the formula reads, I Cor. 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ 
shall all be made alive. " 

Do you see how complete was the bishops' work? And Ps. 69:31:22, for a 
backer. "This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock, that 
hath horns and hoofs, and that which should have been for their welfare, let 
it become a trap. " Yet in view of all this talk, by the victim, about his cruci- 
fixion and resurrection, in Advance of the tradegy, the disciples, after he 
arose from the dead, would not believe. Why? Because God, through the 
inspiration of his bishops, had "concluded All in Unbelief that he might 
have Mercy upon all. " 

How, pray, can a man Believe after his God has concluded him in Unbe- 
lief. Mark 3:14:15:16:17, "He ordained twelve that they should be with him, 
and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sick- 
ness and to cast out Devils, and Simon he sur-named Peter, and James the son 
of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he sur-named them, Boan- 
erges, which is, THE sons of thunder. (How significant a title of honor for 
those incidents of fiction upon whom, the bishops, who are writing, condescend 
to permit God the Son to sur-name his own biographers) and Andrew and Philip 
and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas, and James, the son of Alpheus and 
Thaddeus and Simon, the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed 
him, and they went into the house. " These disciples, whom this Jesus named 
and sur-named sons of thunder, who are to become his biographers in theory 
before going "into the house" after being told over and over again, in advance 
in so much that nearly every Apostolic Biographer, mentions the coming cruci- 
fixion in his narrative. 

Yet when the incident transpires, they doubt it. Why? Because God 
the Father had concluded them All in Unbelief. For which doubt after his 
resurrection and during the forty days' furlough, from the service of God in 
unity, "he upbraids them, with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because 
they believe not the testimony of those which had seen him after he was risen, " 



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and yet in defiance of their unbelief and inconstancy he said, ''Go ye into all 
the world, and preach, the Gospel to every creature, he that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. " 

And in defiance of the conclusion, by the God in unity of ''All in Unbelief, '' 
and to emphasise the decree, launched against the unbeliever, the foregoing 
utterance is made by the victim after his resurrection "from Hell. " But what 
about the word of the head of the firm, God the Father, who concluded "All 
in Unbelief that he might have Mercy upon all," thus in order to develop 
his beatitude of mercy at the expense of the damnation of all men by God 
the Son, who says, "He that believeth not shall be damned," that is to say, 
God the Father, desires to cultivate his grace and mercy, (which in his unity by 
Old Testament narrative, he exceedingly lacked), so he concludes All in Unbe- 
lief for that purpose. But God the Son having no desire to cultivated his mercy 
affirms that he that believeth not shall be damned. But "The scripture hath 
concluded All under sin (that is the sin of Adam) that the promise by faith of 
Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." Believe what? Why, believe 
that Adam's use of the Moral Law against a base and immoral command, when 
you know it was a virtue, yet you admit it to be a sin, and yourself an accom- 
plice and participant, in that sin, called by the church, Original Sin; and you 
pretend to believe that the body or soul (since the scripture makes no distinc- 
tion between the two). Since the riddle of Isa. 53:10 makes the soul an offering 
and Heb. 10:10 the body of Jesus Christ is a genuine atonement for that sin, 
which you positively know to be a virtue, but in order to be a christian, you set 
that knowledge aside, and for a faith and belief at the expense of your reason, 
you admit the sin and with it, the genuineness of the atonement. 

That is that the atonement is no fraud, when you positively know it to be 
a fraud, because it compels you in order to atone for a falsely imputed mis- 
demeanor, to yield your indefensible Assent to a 1^'elony 

Which is a greater offense against the Moral Law than the one from which 
you set out, were it not a virtue, and were the God genuine. 

Thus, the mere tyro at logical consistency need not strain his wit to behold 
that a Proselyte under the domain of this plurality of Pagan Gods, is surely 
as much the child of Hell, as the missionary who traps him; although the anony- 
mous writers of the New Testament by the mouth of Christ insist that he is 
"two-fold more the child of Hell;" allowing the missionary a rebate on the fraud, 
as less malignant, than felonious assent. 

Rom. 11:32 states, "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he 
might have mercy upon all. " This word God must mean the trinit}^ in unity; 
and is the decision of such God, by the mouth of Paul, and the quill of a bishop. 
John 3:36 states, "He that believeth on the Son, hath everlasting life; he that 
believeth not on the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on 
him also." 

So you perceive the wrath, of this God, in unity, for unbelief, after He 
had CONCLUDED All in Unbelief, as a target to his mercy. This is the 
fulfledged dogma of predestination. 

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that belie veth not is condemned already/' that is to say, those whom God in 
unity concluded in unbelief, are condemned already; and here is the reason for 
it, ''because they have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of 
God, " which son must rescue,if so be, the Jewish God from the villainy of punish- 
ing admitted virtue in Adam. And the words, "For ye were as sheep, going 
astray, but are now returned unto the shepherd and Bishop of your souls. " 

So where does the mere puppet of a Proselyte come in, under this partner- 
ship firm? ''God concludes all in unbelief; but he that believeth not 
IS condemned already." Why he is the merest football, a toss-up, with two 
opposing bosses, one predestines all in unbelief, the other damns the unbeliever. 
And John 5:39, states, "Search the scriptures for in them ye Think ye 
have eternal life, and They are they which testify of me. " 

But how about being mistaken in the right God. Acts 17:2:3 states, " And 
Paul reasoned with them three Sabbath days out of the scriptures, opening 
and alleging that Christ Must needs have suffered and risen again from 
the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you is Christ, (could it be 
true, at Thesolonica only twenty years after his death, that Christ was unknown 
and resort to find the Savior must be had to Isa. 7:14, and Isa. 43:11, to con- 
firm the Holy Trinity in unity), and some of them believed; other some said, 
he seemeth to be a setter forth of Strange Gods (but the Jewish God declares 
in unmistakeable terms; Before me there was no God formed, neither shall 
there be After me, verified Isa. 43:10, why was he a setter forth of Strange 
Gods,) because he preached unto them, Jesus and the resurrection; but at 
Achaia, the Jews made insurrection against Paul, but Gallio, the deputy, said 
to the Jews, if it were a matter of Wrong; Reason would that I should Bear 
with you; but if it be a question of Words and Names; and of your Law, look 
ye to it, for I will be no judge of such matters (thus it is manifest that the anony- 
mous writers of the acts of the apostles, at least, consider the writings of the Jews, 
to be m^erely Words and Names, to which One meaning as well as another could 
be attached, irrespective of their use, or application in the original context; 
and this accounts for the manner in which Original Sin, was foisted upon Gen. 
2:17, which Original Sin is a perversion of the meaning from the context taken 
as a whole, or modified by what precedes and and follows, wherein the Jewish 
God had amply punished any offense against his fastidious, immoral disposition, 
which might be ascribed to his clay-made Adam, during his first year; and that 
too by Adam's summary eviction from Eden. 

Then for the church in utter mockery of this God's dealing with Adam, to 
rear a sacrifice from mere Words and Names for the same offense, and to 
subject one-third of their God, to the ignomy of crucifixion — what for? Why! 
for an offense, for which he had already condemned and executed punishment 
four thousand, three hundred and eighty-six years before. 

The church under the dominion of the Jewish God, in trinity or unity, could 
not punish Adam over again, or his descendants for an offense already absolved 
by Adam 's serving his full time under his God's sentence, unless the God be 
mocked and his judgments are, by the church, made null and void; so that as a 
matter of fact, unless the church wishes to punish their Jewish God "over the 



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shoulder" of Jesus Christ, for his immoral treatment of Adam, there is no mean- 
ing or reason whatever for crucifying one-third of the Jewish God. 

So again we have Words and Names to which no rational meaning can 
BE attached; and well may it be learned from the portrait of their own narra- 
tive, ''If it were a matter of Wrong, Reason would that I should bear with 
you; but if it be a question of Words and Names, and of your Law, look ye 
to it, for I will be no judge of such matters; and he drove them from the judg- 
ment seat, and Gallio cared for none of those things. " A great many christians 
imagine that God the Father and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, are 
only one being; if they mean a product of human fancy or fiction, very well. 

Notwithstanding the first person of the trinity, was never known by the 
appellation, ''God the Father" until A. D. 381, after the second person in the 
trinity had been designated, "God the Son. " 

Notwithstanding the fact that the conduct and treatment of Adam by the 
Jewish God, from which the imagination of the writer of the Book of Genesis, 
was delivered ; is the very God adopted, and his conduct and treatment of Adam 
and Abraham, I Cor. 15:22, and Jas. 2:21, by the writers of the new Testament 
from first to last, is one encomuim of approbation and the poitive perfection 
of Adam's obedience to the command of the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, 
is treated by the writers of the New Testament from first to last, as one maledic- 
tion of execration. 

But to return, is there unity of origin and purpose due to the members of 
the trinity to be found continuous in its operation. Let us see. As a whole, 
the Jewish God, derives his primal origin from the fable of Adam and Eve ; and 
was adopted and reduced to fractions for the first time successfully, A. D. 381, 
for the Christian Religion by the bishops of the church; and to make legiti- 
mate the illegitimate, God the Father was at the council of Ephesus, granted 
the Virgin Mary for a mother, A. D. 431, which completes his origin for the 
trinity. 

God the Son, has his origin by act of council at Constantinople, A. D. 381, 
(although he was before Abraham); yet, figuratively, or as we should say, to 
make up the incidents of a rhetorical flourish, he was born of a virgin to meta- 
phor, Isa. 7:14, B. C. 741, receiving the name Immanuel; and Luke 2:7, B. C. 
5, he was born to fiction by narrative again, of the Virgin Mary, for the use of 
the church; his latter origin having been derived from the apostatization of the 
words, "Virgin" and "Immanuel" of Isa. 7:14, by vote of one hundred and 
fifty bishops, who conferred upon him the Holy Ghost for a father, and the 
Virgin Mary for a mother, whose votes had already endowed the said Ghost 
with the function of the Giver of Life, and when complete, is formulated "Jesus 
Christ is incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary," which is verified. 
Matt. 1 :18, by the words, " Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when 
as his mother Mary, was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she 
was found with child of the Holy Ghost. " 

There is no unity of origin between God the Father, and God the Son, except 
they are both the offspring of Isaiah's Virgin, of B. C. 742. And God the Son being 
fifty years the elder, having been given the Virgin Mary for a mother, A. D. 381, 



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while A. D. 431, she was delivered of a son, God the Father, and there is a unity 
of origin in this manner. 

Nevertheless, God the Father was adopted by the vote of the church to 
stand as the first person of the trinity; and God the Son was created by vote 
to stand as second person of the trinity, and God the Holy Ghost in the same 
manner for the third. 

In this respect, by a stretch of the imagination, it might be said there is 
unity of purpose. Thus the present God the Father, as apostatized and re- 
modeled by the church, conferring upon him, A. D. 431, a mother, called there- 
after, ''Mary the Mother of God. '' 

So that unless christian faith be strong enough to make a son, ante-date 
his own mother, and since the present ''God the Son" and his origin A. D. 381, 
at Constantinople, that is to say at that time one-third of the Jewish God, was 
there born of the Virgin Mary, under the title name of "God the Son;" not- 
withstanding the fact that fifty years latter, this precise one-third of the same 
God in unity, was born of the same Virgin Mary, A. D. 431, at Ephesus, (if the 
fractions of the Jewish God, as is claimed by the church, are identical, an 
absurdity for thought ; than which there can be no greater) under the title name 
name of "God the Father. " But so infallible are the acts of these councils 
that gave these several Gods, or fractions of one, the same mother; with God 
the Son fifty years the elder fraction; and the Holy Ghost for a father; yet, in 
just sixty-six years, from the time that the Holy Ghost, was made father, by 
vote, of God the Son, the council of Spain, made God the Son together with 
God the Father, the originators of the Holy Ghost, which completes the last 
fraction of what was once the Jewish God. 

That is in sixty-six years a son is made to originate his own father. And 
the Virgin of King Ahaz is made, A. D. 431, to originate the fraction of the 
Jewish God, designated God the Father, all of which would make "God the 
Father," the son of Mary and Joseph, since nothing appears in the context 
to indicate Joseph's death at that time and since it would do less violence to 
Joseph than to Mary, age taken into account; and since "God the Son," is the 
offspring of Mary and the Holy Ghost, and this arrangement makes the first 
and second persons of the trinity, fractionally, half, or at least, one-third brothers 
and the third person of the trinity the step-father of the first person, and father 
of the second person, by the Virgin Mary; in this respect also, there is unity of 
origin. 

How sublime! But don't smile, for Sarah was forced to lie for a smile at 
absurdity to escape becoming food for cattle, as befell the wife of Lot. As 
for unity of purpose, God the Father concludes all in unbelief to exercise his 
mercy, God the Son having as he thinks no lack of mercy in stock, concludes 
damnation upon all whom God the Father has already concluded in unbelief; 
so here is manifestily, a diversity of purpose between these warring Gods, which 
must, forever consign their followers, as mere puppets to the realm of caprice, 
with less reliance and stability of purpose in which confidence may find repose, 
in such a world's m.anagement, than the merest vegetable, or animal enjoys, under 
the dominion, of the Supreme Being, to whom all, should look as being the only 
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But in the crushing of Adam's virtue, every member of the trinity is by 
sacred fiction an active worker; and there is unity of purpose which lands the 
entire firm into the ranks opposing the moral order of the universe of the Su- 
preme Being. 

Thus the evidence is positive, that, God the Father, originating from the 
Virgin Mary A. D. 431, by act of council at Ephesus, is a product of mere human 
fancy and imagination. 

And the anonymous writer of the Book of Genesis, which is ascribed Exodus 
7:1, to the God Moses, who is said to address his subjects in many instances as 
God, as follows: Gen. 22:1, ''God did tempt Abraham and he said, take now 
thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of 
Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering, upon one of the mountains, 
which I will tell thee of. 

And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son, 
and the angel of the Lord said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, for now I know 
that thou fearest God (meaning thy God, and are as ready to offer a human 
victim to me as followers of other Pagan Gods are to them) seeing thou hast not 
withheld thy son, thine only son from me, in the seed shall all of the nations 
of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice," that is because 
obedience is intended at the expense of murder. 

This was said B. C. 1872, but A. D. 381, at the solicitation of his Bishops, 
he changes his mind, revokes his oath, confirmed blessing, and by the said bishops 
revives the already expiated sin of Adam, committed B, C. 4004, or 2132 years 
years previous to his oath, confirmed blessing, and in place of blessing all 
nations, all now are under the curse of Adam's sin, verified Rom. 5:12, ''Where- 
fore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin so death passed 
upon all men, for that all have sinned. " 

And all are by this God in unity, concluded in unbelief, of beliefs that he 
might have mercy upon all; since to confess the Savior with the mouth, and to 
believe in his resurrection from the dead, are the terms for being saved, veri- 
fied Rom. 10:9. 

Do you ask why God's chosen people, the Jews, reject these dogmas of 
Original Sin, Total Depravity, and The fall of Man, and this Savior that chris- 
tians accept? The reason is, they understand it, their God told them, Isa. 
43:10:11, "That before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after 
me, and besides me there is no Savior." 

They said, no man in his right senses, could believe that the story of Adam 
and Eve, was anything else than a mere fable to provoke obedience to a tyrant's 
throne. What is a Tree of Knowledge? And what is the fruit of this knowl- 
edge, but indefensible obedience, accompanied with the threat, "On the day 
that thou eatest, thou shalt surely die." The very ultimate of Tyranny. 
Obedience founded on Fear, not Reason, the maxim of all forms of despotism, 
governmental or religious. 

As a moral and ethical principle, mankind has placed before it, the eternal 
lesson that Adam's obedience to the intuitive principle of right, the law of the 
Supreme Being for the masses, is Vilified by Adam's God, or at least by the 



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writer, who created him in the Book of Genesis, and by St. Gregory and his 
bishop associates, who adopted and remodeled him, and by whom Adam's act 
of disobedience is pronounced by their New Testament, which contains, and is, 
the voucher for the vilifying libel upon all men, formulated I Cor. 15:22, ''For 
as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive, ' ' and that other 
soul-crushing libel, Rom. 5:12, of Original Sin, formulated, ''Wherefore as by 
one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin so death passed upon all 
men, for that all have sinned. " 

Thus virtue is pronounced vice by both the Jewish God, B. C. 4004, and 
by one hundred and fifty bishops A. D. 381, which are the founders of the 
Christian Religion; and who adopt this God and accept as right wholly in defi- 
ance of the Moral Law, the Jewish God's punishment of Adam, for an act of 
virtue. Now then, a word to the masses. Is any church which teaches this 
doctrine Your Friend, or the friend of oppression? Does the Supreme Being 
call men to contradict their intuition of right? Would the Supreme Being 
require a crucified sacrifice, or an atonement for an act, which he both sanctions 
and commands by the Moral Law? Do you think for a single instant that the 
Supreme Being would keep a reserved seat empty and waiting for eleven hun- 
dred and twenty years at his right hand for the son of King Ahaz's Virgin, as 
is ascribed by narrative to the Jewish God, which one hundred and fifty bishops 
apostatize from the mere word "Immanuel" and use as a sin offering for an 
act of virtue, demanding of the Proselyte, unqualified assent to the woeful 
crime of crucifixion, of this son so reared, in open defiance to the known rule 
of right, and in positive defiance of the Moral Law? 

Think of it, a sin offering to a God, for an act of virtue, which is a positive 
allegation that in the estimation of his worshippers, the rule of his dominion 
is vice. And if mistaken, for the Supreme Being that the rule of the universe 
of the Supreme Being, is vice; and the exception, virtue, for which her votaries 
must Crawl for Pardon. 

For such an insult to the Supreme Being can you censure the immediate 
wreck and depravity of human powers, which result in the Proselyte of such 
folly. Do you still ask why the Jewish God's chosen people reject Jesus Christ, 
as the Savior of man, and an atonement of the transmuted sin to all mankind 
of the disobedience of Adam? 

The reason is, that this Jesus Adam, or his God, never existed anywhere, 
except as a superstition, for the simple-minded and only arises by the christian 
bishops, as a product of the art of apostasy in the use and meaning of words, 
or incidents in fable, from which to rear dogmas for the superstition of the 
uninquiring masses, to believe in as real, bodily or spiritual beings that once 
lived, breathed and had their being the same as you or I, the masses whose minds 
for the meaning of a metaphor or flourish of rhetoric, in culling its lesson, or to 
detect the trick of circumvention, are said to be powerless to comprehend unless 
they imagine each character of the narrative as real beings and not mere inci- 
dents or puppets, that the writer creates or apostatizes, to fill up the show. But 
they were no more human beings, or Gods, than is a scarecrow in the cornfield, 
one. 



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But the Gospel of oppression can be taught and imitated from the fable oi 
Adam and his God, and a lesson to avoid such vice, can be culled therefrom, 
just as well as from the historic event of the massacre of the men of Antioch, 
Asia Minor, who resisted double tax, just as well as the six thousand men of 
Italy, who struck for freedom and their bodies were impaled upon six thousand 
crosses, which decked the Appian wa}^ from Capua to Rome. Just as well as 
the British Colonies in America, A. D. 1776, whose intuitions of Right prompted 
them to resist the oppressor. The principle is every whit that rationality has 
to deal with. Oppression sanctioned by a God and imitated by his worshippers, 
as a lesson, is just as pernicious if indulged in, coming from myth or fiction, as 
from events; and if taught, by the church the tool of the throne and believed 
by the masses, as the operation of a God, adopted, adored, and believed in by 
them, the suggestion from fiction, in the behest of tyranny, for its infamy, is 
just effectual if believed as from fact; and being of necessity from its very nature, 
immoral the authority of a God, for the masses gives it credence and currency. 

But a sacrifice for an act of virtue, when that virtue is used to combat a 
tyrant's vice, places the sacrifice, whether it be the blood of bulls, goats, Jesus, 
or a God, in the ranks of vice. Just as surely as a parent who demands pardon 
of a child, that has let slip a day, without a theft, vice is the law of that parent's 
world, virtue is the exception, and should an act or appearance of virtue, whether 
by design, or accident, intrude itself it must crawl for pardon. 

So likewise is the Christian Religion, which has made the unassailable 
virtue of Adam a target for the vice of all men, for which all men must seek 
pardon; and all men are libeled with the formula, ''For as in Adam all die even 
so in Christ shall all be made alive." 

But this Christ, besides being a ''God with us" in order to add authority 
and weight to utterances ascribed to him, was made a priest after the order of 
Melchisedec: and what kind of a priest was he? Let us see. Heb. 7:1:2:3, 
"For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, Priest of the Most High God, King of 
Righteousness, and after that King of Salem, which is King of Peace, without 
father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor 
end of life; but made like unto the Son of God, (thus according to the writer, 
this God had another son from which he patterned in the manufacture of 
Melchisedec, which) abideth a priest continually." 

Now for Jesus to be a priest after this order, his origin arising from narra- 
tive, from a mere flourish of rhetoric, signifying duration, as does the word 
"Immanuel" the use of which expired in its legitimate use in the context B. C. 
739, within three years of its origin, as it should, by the narrative; then for it 
to be tortured eleven hundred and twenty years later by the bishops of the 
church to yield our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in order to get a virgin mother 
for him, was wholly unnecessary, for if he was a priest without these attach- 
ments, as was Melchisedec, all fuss about earthly parentage, was useless, and 
the dating back arrangement by the anonymous bishops, who wrote the New 
Testament, would have answered, to fulfill every exigency and bridge every 
elipsis necessitated by a change of the Bible, from fiction to event; for him as 
well as the other characters used. 



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He must have been the bright and morning star, as the writer (St. John 
Chrysostom, Rev. 22:16, makes him say he was). As Melchisedec by the 
Bramin legends was the pole star and priest of the Most High God around which 
all other stars revolved; so is the hero Jesus, the star actor in the drama of the 
New Testament, around whom all subordinate characters pay their homage in 
both obedience and worship. 

But all this pantomime performance is confined to the pages of the New 
Testament. Thus this object of redemption reared from the apostatization 
of the words of Isa. 7:14, this personification of the Morning Star, has passed 
the ordeal of metamorphosis from a word a mere part of speech and Morning 
Star, to a priest after the order of Melchisedec, as was David by his demon in 
Psalms; so was Jesus by vote of council A. D. 381, and by construction and 
prophecy, borrowed from the Psalms of David, '^Sit on my right hand until 
I make thine enemies thy footstool." David meaning the Lord, said to my 
guide, or demon, ''Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy 
footstool. " 

The origin of the location in the Jewish God's Heaven of David's imagina- 
tion while the doctrine of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, is being 
carried to completion; all of which the writers of the New Testament borrow 
and ascribe to its character Jesus; all of which tears the mask from his visage 
and opens his allegiance to tyranny under the Guise of Religion. Also 
Psalms 110:4, ''The Lord hath sworn and will not repent thou art a priest for- 
ever after the order of Melchisedec." All this comes from David's demon to 
himself, which the writer borrows and ascribes to its character Jesus, with a 
perverted meaning which the unlearned believe to amount to a prophecy; 
and to clinch the action of the bishops at Nicea, A. D, 325; and Constantinople 
A. D. 381, but instead of clinching it, the entire fable contradicts it, for this 
priest lacked parentage, descent and worship; and this council's acts of A. D. 
381, forcing on to this Jesus, or "God with us" the Pagan Lord and Giver of 
Life, or the Jewish God's Holy Ghost, for a father; and the virgin of King Ahaz's 
time riddle for a mother, such an uncalled for, hypostatic union, in imitation of 
Paganism, (if it*be in any manner short of Paganism itself) is wholly unwarranted. 

Thus we have the origin of this inspired trinity, bound tgoether by the 
infallible acts of council into a God head, by the law of common fraction as well 
as by the useless principle of parentage; so that if the charge of Idolatry by 
any Pagan be launched against any member of the trinity ; if good against one, 
it will be good against all. 

But since the mission of all, is to establish the right of the throne, to punish 
virtue or acts, which are positively commanded by the Moral Law, and b}^ the 
intuition of right, such being ordinances of the Supreme Being in the Human 
Soul, the mission of every member of the Holy Trinity is immoral; and by that 
fact alone, each and all pass by absurdity to the realm of sophistical wrecks. 

But this Jesus was made Heb. 2 :9, i little lower than the angels, a partner 
in the firm lower than angels, just think of it! Yet he thought it not robbery 
to be equal with God, (meaning the Jewish God in unity) that is, he thought it 
not robbery that one third or himself of the Holy Trinity should be equal to 



170 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

the whole or unity, and being lower than the angels himself, and being himself 
one third part of the trinity and still equal with the three thirds or the God in 
unity, carries the whole firm, and if he is lower than the angels, consequently 
the entire firm at one stroke drops below them. 

And can any man of thought for a single instant entertain the idea that 
the Supreme Being is in any possible manner in this make up. 

Yet in Heb. 1:6, are the words, "And again when he bringeth in the first 
begotten into the world (the Jewish God) saith, and let all the angels of God 
worship him. And here is an unmistakable precedent of the higher being com- 
manded to worship the lower, and if idolatry has any meaning whatsoever, it 
takes place when the higher worships the lower whether by command of the 
Jev/ish God or arising from the fact that he is used as a mouth-piece for an 
inspired writer. Thus the idolatrous bishops, who penned this narrative, have 
unmistakably left the foot-prints of their several tendencies, and prepossessions 
for idolatrous worship and by logical sequence of education and environment, 
they have reared every member of the trinity lower than angels, if this Jesus 
was made a little lower than the angels, as is verified Heb. 2:9. If there are 
any degrees of inferiority or superiority, between the worshipper and the object 
worshipped, for the detection of idolatry, or fetichism, it would be less fetich 
or idolatrous, to worship Angels than this Jesus and as a fraction of the whole, 
which is equal to the whole, being created lower than they, it follows that all 
are lower than they. But for angels to worship an object lower than themselves, 
at the Jewish God's command, such must furnish an unmistakable license and 
passport for idolatry and fetich worship by his followers, and such worship is no 
less idolatrous and fetich than for a man to worship some object less significant 
than himself, which if idolatry has any meaning whatever, here is the unmis- 
tabakle license for its indulgence from the Christian God for his believers, ver- 
ified Heb. 2:9, and Heb. 1:6. 

Thus all this folly, and intoxicated self-deception comports with the habits 
and customs of the epoch and empire in which the New Testament was written. 
Do you still ask why the Jew refuses to accept this Christ as their Savior, in 
this same New Testament in which torture and abuse of every name, has failed 
to compel an acceptance and belief, which furnishes a reasonable inference that 
the Jewish God had in mind such nonsense when he ''concluded, all the Jews in 
unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all." 

In Gen. 18, is stated that a Jewish God's messenger told Abraham that his 
wife Sarah, should bear a son, and this same Lord with three men in plains of 
Mamre, came to Abraham's tent, and took supper of cake and veal, and while 
partaking of Abraham's hospitality, one said, ''Sarah, thy wife shall have a 
son, Sarah heard it, (being) in the tent-door behind him, and laughed," at the 
idea of nursing a babe at ninety; which laugh she was forced to deny, "For she 
was afraid" Abraham being one hundred, she said, "Shall I of a surety bear a 
child which am old? To whom the Lord said, Is anything too hard for the 
Lord (and the narrator might have relieved the situation by reference to Eve, 
who at the age of one hundred and thirty was delivered of her third child, Seth.) 
At the time appointed, I will return to thee, according to the time of life, and 



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Sarah shall have a son, and the men rose up and looked toward Sodom. " (Gen. 
18:33, ''the Lord went His way," Gen. 19:1, "two angels" make up the party, 
verse 12 of Gen. 19: they are ''men;" nevertheless the story says, Sarah had 
the son, "and Abraham made a great feast on the day it was weaned. " Thus 
these beings, who met Abraham are alternately " men, " "angels, " and "Lord. ") 

Now then the anonymous bishops who write the New Testament, have 
the audacity, to call all this explicitness of incident, mere allegory and Jewish 
fables, which the Jews admit, but the bishops of the New Testament have no 
right to say it; after pronouncing it History and treating it as events. 

Do you ask after the work of the bishops of the church in their production 
of the New Testament, how it com.es to bear dates from 6 B. C. to 96 A. D., 
that is a method that writers of fiction employ, who try to feign history, in order 
to give credence and currency to their production; and to save themselves from 
persecution, from those who understand their invention. If dated back the 
deception of the simple-minded will be greater to overcome ; besides the trick 
will give emphasis to whatever they desire to establish, if it is obedience, at all 
events unmitigated by any accompanying circumstances as is portrayed in the 
story of Adam and his God, it will attempt the form of history, which might 
pass with the untutored, as history, of events, when in reality immoral and in- 
sensible obedience is the relation intended to be portrayed. 

The fact that the New Testament is dated back several hundred years to 
6 B. C; when its contents in chief originated from A. D. 381, (including the use 
of the Latin Vulgate for the assistance of the writers in Latin,) to A. D. 405, or 
later ; the intention is that it shall be believed as history of events by the undis- 
criminating masses; and in order that every fragment of despotism as portrayed 
by its fictions, should have the weight with the masses of history of men and 
events, and this we find to be the case with the New Testament, which is the 
work of the anonymous bishops, containing the dogma (of I Cor. 15:22, "For 
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,") the words of 
which are elaborated and embellished and contradicted in a thousand and one 
different ways throughout its pages, according to the disposition drift and 
flourish of the men and age in which it was written; and was then dated back 
to 6 B. C, and forward from that date, to 96 A. D., when all contemporaries 
with this period of one hundred and two years are dead, buried and are at least 
three hundred years beyond all power of challenge and criticism, from living 
contemporaries, which also is precisely the way that the books of the Old Testa- 
ment ascribed to Moses, were written. 

Was any reporter on the ground to take notes of Adam's or Abraham's 
exploits, or were they imagined ages afterwards and dated back by the Jewish 
God's confessor Moses, reared epochs later at the court of the Egyptian King, 
Pharoah. 

Should the Hottentots gain the use of letters as they certainly will, what 
must be their written origin? There is only one answer. Fable. If you doubt 
it, attempt the task at once yourself. 

The Savior Jesus, of Matt. 1:18, that by vote of one hundred and fifty 
bishops from Europe, Asia and Africa, A. D. 381, was made "incarnate by 



172 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary" was by vote made an object of worship^ 
was crucified, buried, risen, ascended, and seated all during the year A. D. 381, 
ready to be turned over to the anonymous bishops for elaboration after what 
flourish their imagination could indicate, to the end that their dogmas be incor- 
porated into a text-book, and characters that no suspicion be raised, that the 
book was written by the Emperor's bishops, incorporating into it all the dogmas 
decreed by themselves, which for a makeshift they pretend that one Paul, a 
tent-maker, and a dozen fishermen fresh from their boats, are apostles, to the 
hero Jesus, and being his body guard, so to speak, wrote up what he said and 
did, men, whose occupation forbids them the knowledge of their own name in 
print. 

But be it known, that the writers of this document were no sons of thunder, 
David, or the Holy Ghost, but they were such bishops, (as were left from the 
devastating wars in the dying empire of Rome, which covered the entire portion 
of Europe, Asia and Africa, bordering on either side of the Mediterannean sea, 
from Spain to Syria,) one hundred and fifty of them in number. And do you 
think for a moment, with the Old Testament or Septaugint translated by 
Jerome into the Vulgate before them, and the manner of its fiction or figurative 
history, as a temptation, that they would be outdone in any particular in the 
interest of despotism by the writers of the Old in writing the New Testament? 

''Let not thy discreet heart think it." If Adam was made disobeyed 
turned out of the garden a full fledged sinner, before one year old. Emperor 
Theodosius, St, Gregory, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose and one hundred and fifty 
of their coadjutors, certainly from King Ahaz's time riddle, of Isa. 7:14, as a 
backer ought in less than a year, to be able to reduce the Jewish God as well as 
Adam's sin to fractions, that is, to make that sin infinitely divisible and frac- 
tional in all mankind, and furnish a remedy for it. So that by the reduction of 
the Jewish God, for the purpose to common fractions, in order that one-third 
may be seggregated for an atonement; to be sure one set of characters is as 
easily penned as another. Of course this haste, even when dated back, three 
or four hundred years, would never catch a Jew of the Empire. 

Their Rabbis would see to that, even if those ordained bishops had made 
him die upon the cross, according to scripture, and eat butter and honey; accord- 
ing to prophecy, instead of vinegar; to fulfill the scripture. 

Those anonymous bishops would have their readers believe that the New 
Testament origin of the Savior, is backed by a prophecy of the Jewish God, and 
to that effect they insert bodily, verse fourteen, of Isaiah Chapter Seven, as 
verse twenty-three of Matthew, Chapter One. 

The fact that from this source: the Savior did not come along, from the 

LINEAGE OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC, eXCept thrOUgh his STEP-FATHER, JoSEPH, 

was no DAMPER to their prowess. What they lack in material, they make up 
by inspiration, act of council and infallibility. 

And the words put into Jesus' mouth ''before Abraham was I am" ought 
to be enough to silence any unposted Jew. But Emperor Theodosius had 
others besides Jews in his Empire. Millions of Goths, Hunns and Vandals were 
spreading over the empire, that could question nothing but Roman generalship, 
which they did dispute. 



MORAL LAW APPLIED. 173 

But the bishops who wrote the New Testament, and charged it up to tent- 
makers or fishermen, and their clergy who preached from it, set up the ignorant 
NiNEViTE, as the standard of prefection and seventy times seven, the Hmit 
of forbearance to be exercised between fellow subjects, but reserved the right 
of their God's, if so be, to punish in Advance of any sin whatever. One God 
concluding all in unbelief that he might predestine mercy, Another God saith 
''he that belie veth not, shall be damned." Thus this document of the New 
Testament to contain all this council's acts and dogmas, must of necessity, have 
been written after these fictitious incidents were voted into existence, that is 
after the council adjourned and the bishops went home or took up their abode 
in exile; and elaborated upon what was created, by the council as incidents in 
chief, filling in and fulfilling as they found it expedient for emphasis and author- 
ity, whatever they thought necessary from the Old Testament or Vulgate. 

And when completed, the drama begins 6 B. C, and ends 96 A. D., cover- 
ing a period of one hundred and two years, in which they laid the scene. But 
writing a narrative at the close of the fourth century, since it could no't have 
been written before the dogmas it contains, had their origin; and making the 
characters of the writing talk from 6 B. C, to 96 A. D., renders all the talkers, 
mere incidents of the fables to make up the show, and none of them historic 
men or women, that with the narrative (as the anonymous writings would indi- 
cate), contemporaneously existed. In the determination of historic events the 
principle question that a man should ask himself, when in doubt is, does this 
stand, in date and detail, in contradiction to the laws of the understanding, as 
history of events? If it does, there is not a possibility of its being true as such 
and the mind, for self-protection, must reject it. 

Any statement that contradicts self-evident truth, whether an axiom of 
the laws of the human mind or objective nature, is a falsehood, and this rule 
the mind can use in all its dealings, when the subject demands it. The impossi- 
bility to absolve virtue, by punishment or expiation is an axiomatic truth. On 
the other hand, any statement that agrees with self-evident truth, whether an 
axiom of the laws of the human mind, or objective nature, is true and valid, 
and this rule when the subject demands it, the mind can use in all its dealings. 

When the church adopted the rule, that the contents of the Old Testament 
is the history of men and events, in order to convince the masses, that the 
dogmas of Original Sin and Redemption are true, (but which has defeated its 
purpose among those with the least vestige of the power of resemblance for 
investigation by the perversions, which the church has foisted upon the mean- 
ting of Gen. 2:17, as the origin of Original Sin, and Isa. 7:14, as the origin of the 
object of redemption,) and that every word must be held to mean 
exactly as it reads as though it were the actual history of men and events 
instead of a mere narrative of the writers of fiction. But our opponents affirm 
that this is inspired history. But inspired history of men and events is false 
history when treated in any manner other than fable or fiction. It must be 
fiction to admit of inspiration. Adam's act of disobedience to be classified a 
sin as a mere matter of fiction is false by all the rules that make legitimate the 
possible to say nothing of the contradictions of the actual and necessary. 



174 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

It should be the axiom with the masses that all acts of arbitrary oppression 
and the caprice of rulers should be intelligently resisted, and any Emperor or 
Emperor's text-book that sets up the disobedience of Adam as does the New 
Testament in unnumbered forms throughout its pages and a dozen times in 
Romans, chapter five, as a sin inherited by the masses which is devoid of a 
possibility of being true as an event of history in the realm of fact, and which 
is devoid of setting up a principle or rule of right or is even consistent with the 
possible in the realm of fiction. But, on the other hand, lavishes encomiums 
upon, emphasizes and extols ; the Jewish God of Adam for punishing virtue, or 
conduct cammanded by the Moral Law and execrates Adam for his use and 
exercise of virtue. 

But be it known that any story which is false as an event, and lacks the 
merit of setting up a rule of right, but, on the contrary invites and encourages 
the vice of oppression such story is not only the very apex of sophistry, but it 
is the work of tyranny, deceit, and guile, and any man that is powerless to 
understand it is not responsible for his thought, but, any man that does, and 
still continues to blight his mind with indulgence in such sophistry is not only 
an outlaw of his own nature, but is an outlaw of the true cause of the world, 
and the very conditions of human existence established in that world of thought 
and being. As an event, the fact that any human being could act at all on its 
own responsibility for or against a command for the acquisition of knowledge 
during its first year of existence on the earth renders the story as an event an 
absurdity. And, as fiction, the characters of both Adam and his Gods are 
monstrosities of which an untutored human fancy has been delivered, for this 
God curses, then blesses, then over the head of the blessing he through his 
vicegerents revives the curse again which makes evident to say the least his 
imputed disposition for caprice. As a moral principle arising from a narrative 
of fiction or fable, obedience to the command prohibiting the knowledge of 
good and evil, would give rise to a greater malady, in both the Moral and Secu- 
lar world, than is possible to conceive of under disobedience; on the other hand 
the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, positively comm^ands the knowledge of 
good and evil. 

And the pictorial God of the Jews adopted by the Christians and Moham- 
medans forbids to man the knowledge of good and evil, which means knowledge 
to distinguish the good and the evil, that the good may be chosen, and the 
evil rejected, which is an ordinance of the Supreme Being and Moral,' while 
the command of the Jewish God to Adam, is positively immoral, as must be 
his followers, who surrender their assent to such contradiction, or command for 
ignorance, and accept an atonement, for its disobedience. Did any writer in 
the ranks of the masses, in those early epochs, ever portray as a religion the 
actual sin of tyranny, and its transmission by descent? Never. Why not? 
Because the theological scribe was in the employ of the ruler and not the ruled, 
and the lesson that tyranny has for the masses to learn, is obedience, unqual- 
ified to its arbitrary will and caprice. 

But when the tables turn, to a republic, in which both Ruler and Ruled, 
are United in Each Citizen. Is it sense or reason to use the same text-book 
that was imagined and compiled for the ends of the tyrant? 



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Should not the masses have something to say about using as a text-book 
for their children, one that can set forth the principles of equal rights, and 
not Unequal rights as now taught? 

Is it possible that a text-book that extols such a God and Savior, as the 
tyrant employs, for his ends, can in any possible manner, be at the same time, 
a God and Savior in the interest of the masses? B}^ no means. 

Besides this God, positively denies to his subjects a Savior or even God the 
Holy Ghost, verified Isa. 43:10:11. Tyranny and the principle of equal rights 
are opposites. So also the Jewish God and the Supreme Being are opposites. 
Likewise the creed to perpetuate tyranny, and the principles to perpetuate 
equal rights being opposites; what show have the masses for maintaining their 
principles of freedom and equality with a Bible for a text-book, whose trend 
and teaching is the very opposite? Can such a book, God, or Savior, be the 
friend of the masses, vv^hose very existence, is tolerated at the expense of Good 
Faith? No: then reject them, and save yourself by the act from being an 
Outlaw to your Own Nature and a laughing stock of all the ages to come, 
as well as a defiant opponent of the conditions of human existence, here 
AND NOW established in the world of space, thought, and being by the Su- 
preme Being. 

To be saved by the sacrifice of the blood of bulls and goats, that for ages 
was the Jewish God's remedy for the removal of sin, (verified, Lev. 17:11), 
is branded as ineffectual by the New Testament. 

To be saved by the blood, soul or body of the pretended sacrifice of Jesus, 
as an atonement for sin, ancient or acquired, is branded as ineffectual b}' the 
same New Testament. By II Thes. 2:10:11:12, which affirms, in unmistakable 
terms that "those who receive not the love of truth that the}^ might be saved 
shall believe a lie that they might be damned," — as fiction or fable, the pur- 
pose, end, or lesson is all that the rational mind has to deal with. When obedi- 
ence for the masses to the authority of command, with no other reason than 
servitude, is the object of the age, and you understand that fact, j^our Bible 
reading will be according to your understanding. 

Men whose environment has established a structural bent and inclination 
to serve, need not expect without a struggle of personal investigation to throw 
off that yoke. But, in the United States where equal rights and equal burdens 
under the law should be the maxim of the masses, their thought may have the 
truth if they choose to use their faculties and gain it. Why does the Christian 
text-book teach, that Abraham's faith, at the age of one hundred of becoming 
the father of many nations, was imputed righteousness? Simply because the 
form of thought as well as government of the epoch was despotic. Why did 
Gabriel strike Zacharias dumb for requesting evidence when pressed with absurd- 
ity? Simply because despotism reigned supreme under Theodosius the Great. 
Why was Sarah driven into a lie of denial for a smile at absurdity? Simply to 
establish the principles of despotism, and deprive the masses of reason. Why 
was Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt? Where maternal affection was crushed 
beneath that of the quadruped. Simply because despotism is the rule of the 
Bible, and its rulers, and Gods. 



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Thus the masses, through sheer apathy and fatigue, have been tossed, torn, 
and plundered by assenting at all, to be ruled by the church, the tool of the 
tyrant, stamping its authority by the use of fables, written to make permanent 
the ends of despotism, idolizing those fables with the phrases, prophecy, revela- 
tion, inspiration, word of God, and others too numerous to mention. Do you 
ask why the Angel Gabriel, struck Zacharias dumb when told that his aged 
and barren wife should have a child, for asking the simple question ''Whereby 
shall I know this?" Simply because the bishop who wrote this narrative de- 
mands of priest as well as poselyte that reason shall be speechless, and dare not 
raise its head. Why is the Character Jesus made to proclaim that the men of 
Nineveh that cannot discern their right hand from their left shall rise in judg- 
ment with the generation of Emperor Theodosius, and shall condemn it, sim- 
ply because that Emperor and censor of the New Testament demands that its 
dogmas shall set forth a maudlin servile obedience to his caprice which is well 
attested by the encomiums lavished upon the ignorant Ninevite and the history 
of his massacre of fifteen thousand men at Thesalonica on pretense of giving 
a feast, and his slaughter of the masses at Antioch for their resistance of double 
tax. 

Nothing is more manifest than the fact that the Bible, its Gods, and the 
church and its dogmas are all in the service of the tyrant on the throne, whose 
money paid the ready scribe, as he is called, to do his tyrants bidding. But 
those Gods, those churches, and those creeds are diametrically against the order 
and existence of the Supreme Being of this universe whose law for man is con- 
sistency of function and faculty with this planet and the conditions of life here 
subsisting, diametrically against the ordinances of the Supreme Being, who is 
the origin of the human faculties and intuitions which such servility would 
crush. In Proverbs 28:14 are these words set to the tune of tyranny ''Happy 
is the man that feareth always" and in (Rom. 11:20) "Be not high-minded, but 
fear, " and in (Rom. 13:7) "Render fear to whom fear is due. " These admoni- 
tions accord with the principles of tyranny that prevailed in church and state, 
wholly contradicting the foundation of a republic which depends wholly upon 
the unshackled faculties of the mind of each citizen for its support and perpetua- 
tion. 

But, in the face of this unalterable truth, a church sets up its dogmas and 
doctrines made for tyranny, to fit tyranny here where the opposite conditions 
are the foundation of all safety. Thus the most offensive reign of tyranny is 
the underlying principle that brought this last will and Testament of Emperor 
Theodosius into being; drawn up by the most astute bishops that his Empire 
of Europe, Asia, and Africa could produce, a legacy for the benefit of tyranny, 
in the art of shackling the faculties and intuitions of the masses. Wherein is 
extolled the Ninevite who cannot discern his right hand from his left as the 
standard of human perfection, and seventy times seven is the limit of forbear- 
ance between fellow subjects, and forgiveness in Advance of any sin actually 
committed is required of a subject as the limit of forbearance with his tyrant 
or the church. But that is not enough. The seventy times seven, as a rule 
between fellow subjects, the disposal of the subject to the tormentors for the 



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first offense as against a King or God, the disposal of subjects to damnation 
by God the Son unless the subject believe : when God the Father hath concluded 
all in unbelief and unless forgiveness in advance of any sin actually committed 
is attained as absolution if an original progenitor has used the Moral Law of the 
Supreme Being to flout the vice of an immoral despot as did the disobedience 
of Adam which was made by the church Original Sin nevertheless. ''The slow 
unmoving footsteps" of the tyrant Jesus who dealt out seventy times seven 
as the limit of forbearance between fellow subjects has crawled to a position on 
the right hand of the senior partner of the firm, ''from henceforth expecting till 
his ENEMIES be made his footstool/' who by the pen of a Bishop has now grown 
to be as big a despot as any member of the firm, verified Heb. 10:13. 

The rule of Peter to forbear seven times, the rule of Jesus to forbear seventy 
times seven, the rule of one hundred and fifty bishops, A. D. 381 by the mouth 
of Paul, Gal. 3:22 saying "But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that 
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." 
Or Rom. 11:32 "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might 
have mercy upon all." But Mark 16:16 states, "He that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not, shall be damned." And 
Rom. 10:9, that if "Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and 
shalt believe in thy heart God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be 
saved. " And Heb. 10:12:13, "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice 
for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting 
till his enemies be made his footstool." What sins? Rom. 5:12, "Wherefore 
as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " "But after this man, (Jesus,) had 
made one offering for these sins, he forever sat down on the right hand of God 
(the Father,) from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool." 
Is this the work and word of the Supreme Being, or is it the work of tyrannous 
fiends making malicious sport and victims of his children. 

The masses have had friends. Socrates was their friend, but the masses, 
buried in the superstition of their religion, destroyed him for attempting to 
direct their feeble minds to the Supreme Being and the truth which attends a 
knowledge of his laws. Did the Chinese kill Confucius for his interest in the 
masses? No. Forever be it to their integrity of thought. Races which kill 
their philosophers that think for them must expect for their necks what follows, 
the yoke of ignorance and tyranny. The men who condemned Socrates for- 
ever blot the name of Greece with shame. The billows of time have swallowed 
that race of villains, but Socrates, or the mind that he bore for truth, stands an 
imperishable monument in the mind of the Supreme Being, and all men else who 
make unsullied truth their guide. But what is truth of mind? It is the inci- 
dents of thought agreeing with the purpose in hand; whether the mind be engaged 
in fiction or events. The designation. Supreme Being, may stand in thought 
for the entity, or principle of intelligence from which all efficient causes emanate, 
and to which all ultimate or final causes are related. This principle of intel- 
ligence is the source of all reality, and is the consummation of all perfection. 
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and earthly existence holds him before the camera long enough to get his 
thought, then he vanishes. The better his thought reflects the universe of 
which he is a part, the closer has been his attention to the source from which 
all things derive their origin. 

Oppression is inconsistent with the ends of government, even among primi- 
tive races, for it breaks down the intuitions and aspirations of the masses. But 
the use and exercise of the native intuitions means death to oppression, and the 
"tyrant acts upon this principle, and that is the occasion of multiplied dogmas 
to crush the masses into servitude in order to hush the intuition of right en- 
joined by the Moral Law. Hence resort to all such methods in a realm of free 
institutions is antagonistic to their spirit, and a text-book entitled, ''God's 
word," that makes virtue, vice, or disobedience to a command for perpetual 
ignorance, sin, disobedience to oppression, sin, original sin, at that, passing to 
all men, coupled with the dogma of an atonement is ''enough to turn Concord 
into Hell." Thus all the fragmentary incidents of virtue in the New Testa- 
ment, that this Emperor's anonymous bishops, throw around the main dogmas of 
Original Sin and redemption. Formulated "For as in Adam all die even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. " This babel of caprice, falsehood and oppression; 
this Upas of Stupefaction and Night-Shade of Death; is simply used to con- 
found the tongues and intuitions of the masses, whose feeble logic and power 
of analogy, is no match for the oppressor; and the means in his employ. 

Write over the signature of Emperor Nero, or Theodosius the Great, "Who- 
soever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." "If 
any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy 
cloak also, I say unto you love your enemies, bless that curse you (and persuade 
you to blight and wither your powers by your indefensible assent to Adam's 
sin and the woeful death of Christ as an atonement, for Adam's act of unassail- 
able virtue, already malignantly punished, by a capricious God) do good to 
them that hate you" if your taxes are doubled, pay with joy; and "so let high- 
minded tyranny range on, till ' ' equal rights are crushed to death. 

That might sound all right as a jest, from a Socrates, Confucuis, or a Buddha, 
but from a Nero, Theodosius or his bishops, who wrote the New Testament, 
it can be no jest. 

When that Emperor, whose bishops wrote the foregoing precepts by the 
mouth of their Jesus, for the benefit of his subjects, who had already doubled 
the taxes on their property; but their plea for reconsideration, was spurned 
with contempt and a murmur went up to their God. 

That same Emperor who censored it and whose bishops so nicely 
penned the disobedience, crucifixion, cheek, and cloak story, landed his mer- 
cenary savages into Asia Minor, and subjected the Roman citizens into obedi- 
ence with fire, sword and whips with leaden balls, that after this piece of Van- 
dalism, days were employed in carting the massacred dead to the sea: the 
murmur was silenced and the taxes were doubled and paid. Mulitplied dog- 
mas, beliefs and creeds, to confound the mind of the Proselyte, coupled with 
the maxim that everything is possible with the Jewish God, which means in the 
interest of tyranny, that if the Proselyte can be made to accept dogmas, that 



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contradict both the Moral Law and Nature's laws, in the stockade of its caprice, 
tyranny has him domesticated. So that like the ox or lamb, he will never 
know that the principle interest, his tyrant has in him, is, that he may be used 
for slaughter when the occasion for it arises. 

Death to the human faculties, means life to the purposes of the tyrant. 
Thus, dogmas, creeds, and beliefs, that were concocted by the bishops of the 
church, that contradict every law of nature, every intuition of man, every 
axiom of human intelligence, and every decree of the Moral Law, are not the 
right thing here, in the United States of America. And when you have your 
Proselyte fettered in the stockade of these absurdities, that contradict every 
wholesome aspiration of the human soul, your Tyro of a Minister or Priest, 
can take the Spur of Dogmatic Faith, and the Proselyte will eat and drink 
the pictorial emblems of his victim, will kneel, raise or lower his trunk as 
readily as the Trained Elephant at your circus, whose mind has been wrested 
of its power: and man, l^ke the elephant, from sheer fptigue, in the stockade of 
Dogmatic Faith in the False, must Pause and Wither, with only the animal 
functions left. 

And he will accept absolution, conditioned on assent to the woeful crime of 
human slaughter. A faith in the false, which sends an Adam to the forest for 
Right, which compels a Sarah to Lie for a Smile at Absurdity; that turns a 
mother's compassion into salt, for a movement in the behest of reason; that 
strikes dumb an innocent priest for requesting a reason. 

That nails a Jesus to a Cross to Atone for Unassailable Virtue , already 
maligned and expiated as sin under the counterfeit dominion of the Jewish 
God, but to libel all mankind with such a pretended offense, as though all, were 
so ignorant, as to surrender allegiance to a counterfeit God, is a presumption 
that has all the proportions of a crime; and then to compel the newcomer to 
the stockade of christian faith to yield assent to the crime of crucifixion, as 
redemption; by accepting a share of the advantage, held out by the church, 
conditioned thereon, is to become a '^particeps criminis" at least in the juris- 
diction of the Moral Law. 

But to return, to silence the Virgin Mary at the request of a reason, she 
is met by the bishops of the narrative with the crushing, withering, blighting, 
soul-destroying maxim, "With God nothing shall be impossible," a maxim, 
that has done more to break down the integrity of the christian soul, and the 
Demoralize his mind than any utterance of human speech. Why is this 
maxim, so destructive to the human soul? Because every aspiration of human 
reason and moral inquiry is silenced by it; and man under such a regime is 
not left with as much as animal instinct, with which to guard and guide his life. 

The axiom of the human mind should be and is, when normally constituted 
and unperverted with christian nonsense: that nothing is possible even with 
the Supreme Being; that contradicts Nature's Laws; and you can turn your 
alms houses, jails, churches and asylums, into school houses, for they will not 
be needed, and moral rational intelligent man, will be as consistent -is man 
should be, governed by the powers of truth, right and reason: evident, self- 
evident and axiomatic truth; as an animal is consistent by the guidance of its 
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Then the so-called liberal or bread and butter professions, will have time 
to learn, use and make application of the Moral Law, which at present is not 
only not used, (and since it is in conflict with such professions), is positively 
unknown and unsought by their religion and its followers. A stock company, 
sets up business, patching and new-roofing buildings; one-third of its material 
is in process of decay, on the start, the carpenters complain that it is against their 
consciences to use such material, the company answers, obedience to orders is 
the limit of your anxiety in this matter: we well know that rotten shingles 
contradict a sound roof; but rotten shingles agree with the idea of patching, 
and since we have the exclusive management of the roofs, in this community, 
and patching is full as profitable as new roofing, to keep in business, you must 
either hush your consciences, or quit. 

Now the company or synod, that the ordinary priest of minister works for, 
tyrannically compels obedience to orders. 

Every dogma of the church is a rotten shingle that cries for constant patch- 
ing, with confession or means of grace, whereas, if, in place of dogmatic error, 
the truth had been placed in possession of the Proselyte, (which of itself, will 
engender the love of truth) and the love of truth had thus been imparted to his 
mind, together with the aid, which a positive faith in the Moral Law, furnishes ; 
the Proselyte, would be able to graduate and go alone and the church could 
keep right on with new pupils, like any other school which intends the per- 
fection of man. When a roof is complete, with sound stock, take another and 
be honest about it. If the church would drop its mythical Gods used 
as a substitute, example, license, and the passport for tyrannical meanness, 
and in its place, enthrone the Supreme Being alone, with an invitation for the 
resignation of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, and drop 
the immoral conduct ascribed to them since the immorality of the Gods adopted, 
is bound to measure the morality of their followers, and adopt in their stead 
the Eternal Real One Only Supreme Being, an Entity that any man reasonably 
informed is proud to . make his acquantance : and a knowledge of the laws, of 
that Supreme Being as exhibited in the human soul, as well as in external 
nature, which is positively incumbent upon man to explore; since the conse- 
quences of thought and act, call for the approval or admonition, just as such 
thought and act tallies with right or wrong, fitness or contradiction, which are 
positively incumbent upon him in the dominion of the Supreme Being, as a guard 
and guide to perfect his being. 

If by the church her articles of faith were the mind's axiom^atic truths in 
place of dogmas, that are set up for the soul's apathy, stupefaction, and exterm- 
ination, which were concocted by an Emperor and his demagogues, reason 
could applaud its methods. 

But a religion as exhibited in Heb. 10:1:4, by the words: ''Those sacri- 
fices which they offered year by year, continually, can never make the comers 
thereto perfect; for then would they not have ceased to be offered because the 
worshippers once purged, should have had no more conscience of sin; but in those 
sacrifices, there is a remembrance again made of sins every year, for it is not 
possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. " 

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out of the dim fog of error; then they halt and fall back one thousand five hun- 
dred years longer, upon the words, Heb. 10:9:10; ''He taketh away the First 
that he may establish the Second by the which will we are sanctified through the 
offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all." 

In fulfillment of scripture, Isa. 53:10, "yet it hath pleased the Lord to 
punish him, he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his Soul an offering 
for sin. " Yet Heb. 10:10 states, ''We are sanctified through the offering of the 
body of Jesus Christ once for all." 

And Heb. 10:12, "But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, 
forever sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his 
enemies be made his footstool. " Thus the justice of an Eye for an Eye and a 
Tooth for a Tooth, "from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his 
footstool. " 

Is this the Jesus Christ or "God with us" as the bishops call him. Matt. 
1:23, who dealt out forbearance between fellow subjects seventy times seven, 
or four hundred and ninety to one of a God or King, to which "every knee 
shall bow and every tongue shall confess " that Adam's act of uncompromising 
virtue is Original Sin, which now must be confessed in Advance, of any sin 
actually committed, except the positive sin involved in such a confession. 

This God the Son, who is now seated at the right hand of the God, which 
comprises one-third part, of the original Jewish God as a whole: who punishes 
the virtues in an Adam, and protects the vices in a Cain, and has forgotten 
altogether, or changed his mind concerning his oath to Abraham to bless all 
nations of the earth, as well as his inspiration of Peter's rule of forbearance, 
seven times; his son's admonition while acting as one-third of the Jewish God, 
for the forbearance among men, of seventy times seven, together with his Gods 
and Kings, discharge of a subject to the tormentor for the first offense, as well 
as the forgiveness in Advance, for a progenitor's use of the Moral Law, of the 
Supreme Being, to cut down a base and immoral command from an inferior 
counterfeit of a God or tyrant. 

But "the slow unmoving footsteps "of tyranny and usurpation has crawled 
to a position at the right hand of the senior partner, or God the Father. Thus this 
God, which is one-third of the Holy Trinity, has been theologically reunited 
with another into the semblance of a throned, crowned. King and his minister. 
"From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool." 

This is the "sanctum repositum " of King Ahaz's virgin-born son, Immanuel, 
or "God with us" Jesus Christ, the object of atonement for Original Sin, scarce 
reposes on the right hand of God the Father, which drowned, burnt, and falsely 
made oath to bless mankind for Abraham's obedience to his orders, that is for 
obedience to his com^mand to Abraham, to sacrifice his son: and concerning the 
command prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil: the disobedience of 
which for seven hundred years the very eyes of Adam's descendants had beheld 
their clay-made progenitor, living and serving out his sentence in penal servi- 
tude at hard labor; and why should they not obey such a command, the dis- 
obedience of which had cost Adam nine hundred and twenty-nine years at 
hard labor in exile. Yet in spite of all their senseless struggle to obey and 



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please such a God, which ''Has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he 
hardeneth. " And of the same lump, to make vessels of wrath and mercy. 

Yet in spite of all this obedience and precaution, to do this God's precarious, 
improvident and unqualified will, whose character and deeds are a synonym 
of caprice, brutality, treachery and meanness, with the dogma of predestina- 
tion to fall back on, when Moral reasons break way, to further his treachery, 
a being who drowns and rains fire and brimstone on hisown likenesses and images 
for obedience to his own commands against knowledge of good and evil. 

But you might say, fortunate for mankind that this God's dominion is 
confined to paper and ink! if that was the end of these fictions, it would be 
fortunate indeed! 

But when the church, by its fiat, makes fiction history, and vice its virtue, 
and imitates its scenes and adopts and worships its Gods, and continues once 
a quarter to offer oblation to the virgin-born son of King Ahaz's time riddle, 
which word, ''Son" or "Immanuel" in the relation was one incident with no 
greater significance than the word "virgin," than the word "Immanuel," or 
any other word in the sentence used to indicate the passing of time. But the 
words "virgin," son, and "Immanuel," have been apostatized b}^ the church, 
and tortured to yield by an hypostatic union with the Holy Ghost, the Savior 
an object of redemption, which must be crucified and accepted by the Prose- 
lyte as a condition of a future life. 

If the christians accuse the Jews of the patching process, why do they 
persist in the continuation of the same, in an exaggerated form? 

One is just as fetich and degrading as the other, to torture Words into 
yielding an object of worship, as was the word "Immanuel," made a "God 
with us," verified Matt. 1:23; such circumvention, is nothing short of down- 
right idolatry in its most debasing form. 

Now then, the New Testament expressly teaches Heb. 10:4, that " it is not 
possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins, " and that no 
mistake in the meaning of this utterance can be made, in Heb. 10:11, are the 
words: "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering, often times 
the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. " But this God, Exodus 
7:1, says Lev. 17:11, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given 
it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood 
that maketh an atonement for the soul." Now then the Bible God's word, 
for the removal of sin, in Leviticus 17:11, is declared void and of non-effect 
by the Bible God's word Heb. 10:4, which says, "That it is not possible that 
the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins." A downright contra- 
diction; in one of this Jewish God's principle ordinances, which is a positive 
demonstration of a counterfeit. 

Does the christian ever ask himself which one of these two Bible God's 
word is right, or is it the same God contradicting himself? Or is it the inspira- 
tion of the Holy Ghost of one, contradicting the inspiration by the same Holy 
Ghost of the other? To accept a Jews belief, contradicts the Christian belief, 
and to accept the christian belief, contradicts the Jews belief; and to accept 
both, since each cancels the other, and unless one is rejected as soon as the 



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falsehood is realized, such conflict relegates the human mind by its own self 
impeachment to the realm of impotency by the law of contradiction. 

Christendom for fifteen centuries has proclaimed for the pulpit the cross 
of an atonement reared from an apostatization of mere words to enthrone a 
belief on words void of meaning, as though words could signify what transcends 
human conception; fictions reared in the interest of Emperor Theodosius the 
Great and his successors in power. 

But the six thousand bodies swung aloft by the tyrant Crassus, in Italy, 
upon crosses, as a perpetual warning to the masses, that such shall be the fate 
of all who strike for freedom. 

The six thousand actual existing bodies, that swung aloft from as many 
crosses in the cause of equal rights is never mentioned, from the pulpit or the 
platform of Christendom and it is right not to display crime. Why? Because 
it is debasing to keep the picture of a crucifix or murder continually before the 
mind. But the tyrant knew no rest until the last man to be found of one hun- 
dred and fifty thousand, perished like dogs. 

Six thousand pretended Saviors, impaled upon crosses, could not forgive, 
absolve, or atone in the interest of oppression for one single act of virtue, or 
even make a successful attempt to cancel virtue, unless they take their stand 
in the ranks of vice, and in that way make virtue a sin, only as being in opposi- 
tion, to their vicious end or purpose. 

And this is precisely the predicament, in which Christianity is found, with 
its New Testament as a text-book, and the doctrine of the disobedience of Adam, 
a sin, and the crucifixion of Christ a blessing, which follows assent, to the homi- 
cide, as its foundation verified Rom. 5:12, by the words, ''Wherefore as by one 
ma n (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed 
upon all men for that all have sinned." Also I Cor. 15:22, contains the libel, 
''For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

"Children obey your parents" is taught as a command of your Bible God, 
but should a parent imitate this Bible God, in prohibiting a child the use of its 
powers, in distinguishing good from evil, which is a necessary condition to the 
intelligent choice of the good and rejection of the evil: What would you 
THINK of SUCH a PARENT? Why, that he consciously intended to grow an 
IDIOT, or was one himself; yet, he would only pattern precisely after this 
immoral, mythical Jewish God, of savages, which every christian believes in, 
and worships and in spite of the laws of the Supreme Being to the contrary, 
attempts to imitate; a God which was adopted by its bishops to preside over 
the Christian Religion and to stand as and for, the original God of the New 
Testament, from which the trinity was taken, which is verified and confirmed 
I Cor. 14:38, by the words, "If any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." 
Should a parent command a child to keep from school, and the child disobeys, 
who sins, parent or child? The child obeys its power of right, and disobeys 
an immoral Command. 

Adam's disobedience, was a just censure and rebuke to the tyrant. 
The fact that the writer of the fable used the word "God," to stand for 
tyrant, cannot mitigate one particle his knavery deceit, or guile; but the trap 



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HAS SERVED its purpose among the uninformed and simple-minded for fifteen 
CENTURIES, nevertheless. 

If the fable lacks the merit of yielding a moral, which it certainly does, 
when it demands obedience, at the expense of knowledge, in distinguishing 
good from evil; on the contrary, under the intention of the author, the fable 
not only lacks the merit of yielding a moral, but it demands human ignorance 
in choosing the good, and refusing the evil, which is positively and absolutely 
immoral; and contradicts the rule of right. Now then if this command is 
a,bsolutely immoral, as it certainly is, and contradicts a known rule of right, as it 
certainly does, then Adam, who refused to obey this immoral command, did 
absolutely right, in such refusal, and his act stands justified before the bar of 
the Supreme Being; and this fact alone, (could moral intelligence in any case 
reconcile itself, to human slaughter, for a sacrifice), crushes at once and For- 
ever the slightest occasion for a sacrifice. Savior or an atonement to forgive or 
absolve Adam's act of virtue. 

In other words, the Jewish God of Isa. 43:11, by his own express affirma- 
tion through the inspired writer, has no use for Saviors, of any kind ; much less 
has the Supreme Being to subvert his moral world, a use for Saviors, or Trin- 
ities under the partnership title of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; that contradict 
the numerical relation of the One Only Supreme Being. The Jewish God 
in unity or trinity, is served by those, whose advocates, for a substantial con- 
sideration, are in hopes to assume and to do all of the clerical business, as agents 
for collections, and to force all the nations, of his dominion to solicit pardon, 
forgiveness and absolution in advance, to the firm or their vicegerents in 
POWER, since one member of the firm, according to the fictions of his bishops, 
has given out as the rule, between fellow subjects, that seventy times seven, 
shall be the limit of forbearance, but that the servant or subject of the firm 
shall be turned over to the tormentors by the firm, for the first offense, 
and that Kings shall pattern after it. 

But tyranny never knowing when to check its vice, runs over and demands 
when Virtue, is the Sin, against Despotism, that the offense covers the entire 
dominion; and absolution in Advance is exacted, expressed by the formula, 
''For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive'' in a bunch, 
as his footstool, to fulfill his majesty's expectation. But what would happen, 
if Adam was right, and the oppressor's God, is in the transgression, as a pass- 
port, makeshift, or license for his followers to Pattern after, in punishing an 
act of virtue by inadvertance, mistake or design? What would happen? Why, 
the christian's God is a self-evident counterfeit, and the foundation of the 
Christian Religion, must evaporate into the oblivion, which is the destination 
of all forms, of falsehood, error and caprice. 

What must be the degree of moral intelligence to reconcile itself at all, to 
human sacrifice? It surely must be at a minimum, when one sin must be 
expelled with another and more heinous; and much less, when virtue by the 
church, must be expelled with sin, arising from the belief of a doctrine, as is 
the case by yielding assent, to human slaughter or crucifixion. 

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or misery, who does it belong to? Only to the preacher who offered it. The 
sin of his Adam, is his own vice, but my virtue. The crucifixion of a Savior 
is his own virtue, but my vice, and each may retain his own expressed by the 
formula, ''For as in Crhist all die, even so in Adam shall all be made 
ALIVE." Yea, says the bishop, ''We are found false witnesses of God, because 
we have testified of God, that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so 
BE THAT THE DEAD RAISE NOT; for if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised, " 
and here is his reason for it, "For since by man (Adam) came death, by man 
(Christ) came also the resurrection of the dead." "For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " Again, what would happen, if 
Adam was right, and his God is in the transgression for punishing virtue? 

Let us be honest, what would happen? Why, it would happen that the 
writer of the Bible had made malicious sport of his God; and by his own narra- 
tive has rendered him a counterfeit; since by using his name to couple senseless 
obedience to a command to make ignorance perpetual at the sacrifice of wisdom, 
of knowledge to choose the good and refuse the evil, which wisdom and knowl- 
edge are essential to human acquistion and agree with a known rule of right, 
native to the human soul and hence become an ordinance of the One Only 
Supreme Being. 

And it follows by logical necessity, that any and all Gods, any and all 
forms of DOCTRINE in opposition to this ORDINANCE are SPURIOUS, and be- 
lievers in such, whether by accident or design or by becoming the habitual imi- 
tators, of their environment, are simply supporting and chasing after error, 
a,nd falsehood. Should a parent forbid a child to attend school for the reason 
that he remain ignorant and incapable of distinguishing good from evil; but 
the child in obedience to the voice of the intuition of right, a higher law than 
the authority of command, with which the Supreme Being has endowed his 
nature, disobeys his parent and continues to attend school, encouraged by his 
sister that it was right, and would enable him to gain wisdom for the self- 
correction of thought and act; but for the act of disobedience, arbitrarily clipped, 
of every moral consideration, his father inflicts punishment. Who is in the 
transgression? Why the parent; for the exercise of an unconscionable inde- 
fensible prowess for the punishment of virtue and not the child for obeying his 
sense of right. 

Would you call the parent of this child civilized? But this is a true por- 
trait of the Jewish God as depicted from the imagination of his inspired inven- 
tors. Would you say that the disobedience of this child was a sin, and Original 
Sin, to blight all his prosterity forever to be born into the world; so that a 
reconciliation could only be brought about by a sacrifice an atonement, a 
propitiation because this Bible God, arbitrarily said "Children obey your 
parents;" or would the command for perpetual ignorance have been more 
LIKELY to Blight his posterity to be honest about it. Can you fail to 
behold the shameless fanaticism of christian sophistry, and artifice, invented 
to furnish authority, with a passport and license for despotism. 

Why, the mere anim^al don't compel the obedience of its offspring to its 
will, contradicting a law of nature. 



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The animal chastens and corrects its offspring in conformity, to laws of 
nature. ''Children obey your parents" if a parent compels a child to steal, and 
it disobeys, which transgresses, the Moral Law, parent or child? If to lie, 
parent or child? If to assault, parent or child? If to commit murder, as was 
the command, to the mythical Abraham upon his son Isaac, by his Jewish God, 
which transgresses the Moral Law? Both, in theory, from the one regarding 
it from the standpoint of fiction, as well as both, from the one regarding it 
from the standpoint of history. 

Now this is precisely the trouble with a nation or people, who believe in and 
worship an imaginary, immoral, mythological God. 

First when such a God's commands, as those depicted by his writers, 
are immoral, his believers and followers are bound, to accept as a pattern for 
conduct, his immoral commands, as an excuse or makseshift for such, and not 
being acquainted with the Moral Law of the Supreme Being; effects a positive 
OVERTHROW in the human soul of the possibility of evoking the True, 
Moral Law, and Order of the Supreme Being. 

Thus Adam's or Abraham's Jewish God, which is the adopted God of the 
christian and is set up, to preside over his religion, and the New Testament, 
verified from Matthew to Revelation, (verified Matt. 22:31, Mark 12:26, Luke 
20:37, Acts 7:31:32) in which the God of Abraham is positively the one adopted 
b}^ the Christian Religion, and his immoral command to Abraham: as though 
A genuine God in imitation of human sacrifices, offered to false Gods, 
would ''so slander any moments time," as to command Abraham to slay his 
son, in order to see, whether his following by his subjects, was as unfaltering 

as THAT OF OTHER GODS. 

And Abraham's obedience to the immoral command for the purpose above 
narrated, is extolled by the New Testament thus, James 2:21, "Was not Abra- 
ham our father, justified by works when he offered Isaac, his son upon the altar; 
and the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed God, (such im- 
moral and criminal obedience) was imputed unto him for righteousness, (and 
this is the material that Biblical righteousness is made of) and he was called 
the friend of (this) God. ' ' 

Thus Abraham, which is an allegorical character, or product of the imagina- 
tion, apostatized by the Jewish God from the syllables, Ab. Ram, and a per- 
sonfication of the sign Ram in the zodiac. 

And this word Abraham, used by mythology to stand as a hero, is extolled 
by the anonymous bishops who wrote the New Testament; and being posi- 
tively ignorant of the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, as set up in the human 
soul, can do nothing but sustain an immoral command, and exact obedience to 
it by an immoral allegorical man, who is so blinded, as the story goes in the 
myth, by the dogma of obedience, that he deigns not to murder his own son; 
and such was imputed by the Jewish God to Abraham for righteousness: (if 
Biblical righteousness is not sin, in the real universe there is none:) and he was 
called the friend of (this) God." 

An act, the attempt of which to-day would consign him to the asylum or 
penitentiary. Of course, Abraham was the friend of this Jewish God, for im- 



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morality was the bond of their friendship, as the anonymous bishops by the 
mouth of Jesus, have not failed to recommend, Luke 16:9, ''I say unto you, 
make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye 
fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations." 

But we are not through with this Abraham, when he gets back to his 
everlasting habitation or the Jewish God's Heaven, (where all christians in the 
sweet by and by expect to land), a rich man within hearing distance, in order 
that you may see that the Jewish God's heaven and Hell, are in close proximity; 
the rich man says to Abraham, (from an atmosphere of so diverse a nature, 
across the border, line that steam must of necessity generate). "I have five 
brethren, (send Lazarus) that he may testify unto them lest they also come to 
this place of torment, Abraham saith unto him, they have Moses and the Proph- 
ets, let them hear them, and he said, nay father Abraham, but if one went unto 
them from the dead, they will repent, and he, (Abraham) said unto him, if 
the}'' hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though 
one rose from the dead. " But one hundred and fifty bishops made the hazard 
of the belief as an experiment, that is, the Proselyte must confess the Lord 
Jesus with the mouth, and believe in the heart God hath raised him from the 
dead as a condition precedent to being saved, verified Rom. 10:9. So Abra- 
ham preferred the satisfaction like his mythological descendant Jesus, to 
REMAIN thenceforth ''Expecting till his enemies be made his footstool 
(which is all the time) an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth" with the 
judges of the Jewish Law; but seventy times seven is the rule of forbearance 
between fellow subjects, or pardon in Advance, for an affront to the tyrant, from 
Virtue arising in the nature of a rebuke, from the immoral conduct of Authority. 

But the Moral Law of the Supreme Being is as unknown to those dabblers 
in the doctrines of Heaven and Hell, who wrote both Old and New Testaments 
as though it never existed. Thus it may be laid down as axiomatic, that a 
race will be no more moral, than the Gods set up and depicted by its fetich men; 
for its worship. 

And when an imaginary false, capricious God is set up in the interest of 
oppression, his immorality and wickedness will be the measure of the morality 
of the tribe or nation adopting and worshiping him; and that is precisely the 
predicament that professed christians are in at this instant, wherever they are 
found. 

The character of the God of Abraham, who commanded him to sacrifice 
his son is positively immoral and Abraham's obedience was counted righteous- 
ness to him, which is positively immoral and demonstrates the truth that the 
immorality of a God is the measure of the morality of his followers; and the 
Lord said, ''Because thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, in thy 
seed, shall All the Nations of the Earth be Blessed, because thou hast 
obeyed my voice ' ' totally regardless of its moral relation or fitness to the ordi- 
nance of right, in the human soul by the Supreme Being. But this Blessing 
did not last long. 

A. D. 381, this " God concluded (through the agency of his inspired bishops,) 
Gal. 3:22, all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given 



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to them that believe." Believe what? that Adam's disobedience was sin, and 
the crucifixion of Jesus is a genuine atonement for it. 

In other words, this God of Abraham had forgotten the affront that he had 
suffered from Adam, when he promised Abraham to bless all the nations of the 
earth, conditioned on the merits of Abraham's obedience. But a blessing at 
the expense of criminal intent to kill, would be more savage than civilized. 

But the bishops of the church of A. D. 381, prevailed upon this God, to 
annul, his latter decree for a Blessing, and to revive, his abandoned curse or 
threat of death, which the said church would launch upon all men for Adam's 
disobedience; and they formulated thus, Rom. 5:12, ''Wherefore as by one man 
sin entered into the world and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for 
that all have sinned," coupled with another of like import, I Cor. 15:22, ''For 
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

And the New Testament is written and Christianity is founded on the 
supposition that Adam was the real sinner, even though his act is commanded 
by the Moral Law; and the sacrifice or crucifixion of a Jesus, must absolve this 
act of right, as if it were a sin, which sacrifice is an implied admission, that 
Adam's act was so much a virtue that his exile was powerless to absolve it. 

Thus it is more than manifest that the design of barbarous tyrants is far 
more preferable for believers, in Biblical lore than the Innate designs as set 
forth by the Moral Law of the Supreme Being. 

Thus, these degrading ideas, coupled with the use of the word "God" by 
the vulgar among the anonymous writers of the New Testament, are the mere 
reflection of their ignorance of natural, ethical and political science; or of their 
allegiance to a tyrant's caprice. That habit of mind is best which most com 
pletely conforms to the creator's unalterable arrangement of the world; and the 
fact that science must unlock that arrangement, makes it at once her most 
faithful ally, for the introduction and acquaintance of the physical, moral, and 
intellectual nature of man. The character of the Jewish God, is displayed in 
his command to Adam, for ignorance as well as in his command to Abraham 
for crime. Both commands are positively immoral; but Abraham's intended 
crime is imputed righteousness in both Old and New Testaments, which now 
and forever settles the question of their morality, as well as being a settlement 
forever of the question of infallibility or inspiration as emanating from any 
■source but that read into the Jewish God. Genesis, 22:16:18, states, "The 
Lord said, because thou hast done this thing, (meaning Abraham's indefensi- 
ble intent to kill,) and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, in thy seed 
shall all nations of the earth be blessed. " 

And such obedience was so useful, for the ends and purposes of tyranny 
and the founders of our Holy Religion, were so overwhelmed, with such a find 
in the Old Testament that; not to be outdone, by any Jewish scribe, they prevail 
upon their Jewish God to allow a third part of himself to yield to an ignominious 
death upon the cross, (which of course was done only in pantomime, but the 
effect upon the masses for future generations would be the same as though the 
crucifixion were actual, which was so nicely arranged and brought about by 
the dating back process,) formulated Rom. 5:19, by the words, "Wherefore 



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as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience 
(of one-third to the death of the cross) shall many be made righteous, confirmed 
Phil. 2:8, by the words, ''And being formed in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross. " 

And this Jewish God jdelded to their enticing solicitations, notwithstand- 
ing, the fact that such a surrender must be in downright, jest and utter mockery 
of this very God's original disposal of Adam's case. 

Which is an uncontravertable demonstration that obedience at that age 
of the world's history with both Gods and bishops outbid ever}" other consider- 
ation. In the place of such superstition, free beings, should have a code of 
moral ethics, which can be used as a text-book, for drill, and discipline in order 
to develop the harmonous activity of all the intuitive ideas and faculties which 
are necessitated by the Creator's institutions. 

Each power should act in its own province and should be subjected to 
severe drill for that purpose. The mind that wishes to use evident, self-evi- 
dent or axiomatic truth, must cancel everj^thing of whatsoever name or nature, 
which for thought contradicts such truth, or else its integrity becomes shattered. 
It is self-evident that the dogma of the Original Sin of Adam, could not be true as 
a moral from fable or fiction, since to a command enjoining ignorance, disobedi- 
ence is commanded by the Moral Law; and the dogma of Original Sin could not 
be true as an historic event, since Adam was an infant, at the time of the 
imputed sin; much less could the formula be true, which states A. D. 59, I Cor. 
15:22, ''For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive," and 
since the Original Sin of Adam, is contradicted by the dogma, I Tim. 2:14, A. D. 
Q5, being uttered six years later, and consequently ; upon more mature reflec- 
tion, is the statement, "Adam was not deceived, but the Woman being deceived 
was in the transgression. " 

It is a self-evident truth that Original Sin could not be charged up to Adam 
and through him to all mankind, if Eve was the only one to blame, and since 
Adam's sin is the chief and practically, the only dogma on which the Christian 
Religion is founded, and the incontrovertible fact that Adam's act was com- 
manded by the Moral Law, before its bar, the Christian Religion is relegated 
to the realm of immoral sophistical wrecks. This false and malicious libel upon 
Adam or Eve, both of whom, as a lesson from the mere incidents of fiction, were 
in the exercise of the principle of right, which is an ordinance of the Supreme 
Being, and any writer, who can unblushingly declare that the exercise of this 
power of insight, is in any possible manner a sin, openly and avowedly declares 
in principle the ordinances of the Supreme Being, to be a sin; an absurdity than 
which for the power of thought there can be no greater. So that by confining 
the offense to Eve, the written dogma of the Original Sin of Adam expressed 
by the words, " For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive, " 
contradicts both a principle of intelligence and the libel of Original Sin itself, 
as set forth in the above formula; so that the christian who hangs his destiny 
upon the dogma of redemption by the teaching of the New Testament itself, 
has not a shadow of truth upon which to stay his faith. 

Can the United States set the world an example with a governmental con- 



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stitution, and at the same time, in positive subversion of the moral integrity 
of thought, retain the worst form of despotism for a religion on earth. Such 
an assault upon the guileless and unthinking masses, is a blunder that has all 
the proportions of crime. No man can progress unless he unfalteringly rejects 
error. To embrace error impairs the powers of both body and mind. The 
nine human faculties, and twelve necessary ideas or truths of the soul, evolved 
and evoked by drill and use into consciousness, are absolutely necessary to the 
moral and intellectual adaptation of man to his environment and are positively 
essential, to a moral rational intelligent existence at all. 

Hence, any creed, dogma or tenet, that pretends to substitute artificially 
the legitimate action of any normally constituted faculty or intuition is wrong 
and should be shunned like any other vice. Steady, normal and rational 

DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE POWERS IS PRESENT PERFECTION. 

The church dogmas set up by Emperor Theodosius, and his council of 
bishops, that with the church are in use, force and effect to-day, which the 
dogma, I Tim. 2:14, contradicts as certainly as truth does falsehood, when it 
states ''Adam was not deceived, but the Woman being deceived was in the 
transgression. '^ And not only so, but those dogmas in use positively contra- 
dict the moral commandment to distinguish good from evil. Thus, all such 
statements, as the foregoing, expressed in (Rom. 5:12:19, or I Cor. 15:22) are 
rendered absurd and false by the law of contradiction; and it follows by neces- 
sity that the words, ''Then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain" 
and christians or others, who believe in such vanity, "Are of all men most 
miserable. " 

Men who hang their destiny on a contradiction, and an absurdity, must ex- 
pect to be miserable indeed. For Adam was not in the transgression, as the 
Jewish God's word, in unity, I Tim. 2:14, expressly states, by ascribing the 
libel to Eve, besides its being in positive contradiction to the behest of the 
Moral Law. Consequently all this fabulous talk, "As in Adam all die, even so 
in Christ shall all be made alive, " is the very apex of fabrication, falsehood, and 
absurdity. 

That is, a man sins and he don't sin, which will you have? The belief of 
one cancels the other, the belief of both cancel each other, as well as the mind; 
and relegates the human faculties to the realm of impotency, which surely 
would make such "Of all men most miserable." 

Thus the anonymous bishops that invented the dogmas (set forth in the 
Book of Romans, Chapter Five, and I Cor. 15:22) which became so popular 
that St. Augustine a convert of St. Ambrose, A. D. 386, is the reputed author 
of the statement that "The Catholic Faith teaches that all men are born so 
Guilty that even Infants are certainly Damned, when they die without having 
been Regenerated in Jesus, (and gives as a reason) that their souls being com- 
prised in that of Adam, it is probable that they were all his accomplices. " 

Thus this body of bishops, tortured the fable for obedience to oppression, 
founded on the threat of death, which the Jewish God, had outbid, with Adam's 
banishment from Eden, by the most unscrupulous piece of jugglery ever resorted 
to outside of an highwayman, into the false and malicious libel of tainting all 
men fore/e?' to be born with Original Sin, from an act of positive virtue. 



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The s lid bishops are the accredited authors of the dogma of Original Sin 
passed upon all men from the disobedience of Adam, which was in itself a virtue 
of the highest merit, because a command to compel ignorance of good as well 
as evil, contradicts the known rule of right and obedience to the known rule 
of right, is obedience to the Moral Law. 

But obedience to a command to perpetuate ignorance, which contradicts 
a known rule of right, is obedience to the trifling sophistry, of despotism, in 
contravention of the law and order of the Supreme Being. 

Those bishops, who were the originators of the dogma, making disobedi- 
ence to an immoral comm.and, by the inferior, immoral, Jewish God, a sin 
when to obey such an immoral command would be a sin in itself, as well as 
against the ordinance and Moral Law of the Supreme Being, 

Now then you have the case squarely before the mind; you have the God 
of Adam, known as the Jewish God, issuing an immoral command to Adam 
for perpetual ignorance in the Book of Genesis, which the church has endorsed 
and adopted; on the other hand you have the Supreme Being, whose implied 
decree to all men, is a knowledge of good and evil, in order to distinguish between 
them, that an intelligent choice of the good and rejection of the bad, may be 
made; the intuition of right in the human soul, coupled with the implicit com- 
mand of the Moral Law, to obey that intuition, is the immediate voice of the 
Supreme Being. 

Notwithstanding, the Jewish God demands your obedience to an immoral 
command for perpetual ignorance, which in itself is a positive sin; on the other 
hand, the Supreme Being, commands your obedience to the Moral Law, as a 
guide and guard against the soul's desecration with the false. Now then, 
choose which you will serve. If a false immoral God raised from a false and 
immoral myth, or story, which has no other foundation than meaningless words, 
to rest upon, (as is the case with the origin of Jesus from Isa. 7:14) is entitled 
to your allegiance very well, the Christian Religion and the Christian Trinity 
of Gods, and one hundred and fifty ordained bishops, which invented it and 
founded it, by their art in the apostatization of words, as is evidenced by the 
interpretation which they foist upon the word "Immanuel, " from Isa. 7:14, 
verified Matt. 1 :33, which is named by them to be a ^' God with us. " 

Beside you have all the untold masses, which for fifteen centuries have 
fallen asleep in Christ on your side, but they can do absolutely nothing for you, 
to place you in the ranks of the Supreme Being, whose laws are Moral as well 
as Secular; and whose integrity is absolute perfection. 

This Jewish God's religion or the Christian Religion set up by the church 
and formulated by the words, '^For since by man came death, by man came 
also the resurrection of the dead. " If this dogma is moral, and entitled to your 
assent the Jewish God is entitled to your allegiance. But since the foregoing 
dogma is immoral and false, the Jewish God as well as his voucher the New 
Testament, is immoral and false as has been positively demonstrated. 

But the Supreme Being, is not in this mix-up at all, he was as positively 
unknown to the church, when Christianity or the Christian Religion originated, 
as he must be to-day with all who consider the Old and New Testaments the 
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His only volume is the Universe, and only as you can descipher that, can 
you become acquainted with him. Men of science have done what they could 
to reveal the Supreme Being in the discovery of his laws. 

While the church, with its Holy Trinity, has given the Supreme Being 
for the vision of the masses, a total eclipse, (verified Rom. 5:12, I Cor. 15:22). 
These subtle dogmas that no Proselyte understands, that the bishops who made 
them, never intended them for anything but a yoke that would completely 
pervert the reason and native intuitions by the surrender of unqualified assent 
to falsehood and crime ; so that after the Proselyte flounders from the blow of 
the fasehood of Original Sin and the crime of crucifixion, until fatigued from 
sheer exhaustion, then, in perfect imitation of others, the victim will of his own 
accord, come to the sanctuary to be cleansed of every, the least vestige of Adam's 
virtue, misnamed by the church, sin, which has the desired effect, the intended 
blight, so that he will confess Christ which admits without qualification Adam's 
disobedience a sin, and will surrender, (for the advantages offered by the church 
of pardon, and eternal life,) his unqualified assent to the homicide or crucifixion 
of Christ, acknowledge a belief that he arose from the dead, anything to be 
saved. 

He will believe everything is possible with the Jewish God; even to the 
total eclipse of the Supreme Being, and utter wreck of his Moral Law. 

In Heb. 10:10, are the words, ''We are sanctified through the offering of the 
body of Jesus Christ once for all. " What is this, but a narrated, and unquali- 
fied assent of the believer in the crime of crucifixion, which dogma was formu- 
lated in order to remove the sin which we inherit, as accomplices in Adam's 
transgression; notwithstanding the fact, that Adam used the Moral Law to 
reprehend an immoral command, issuing from an immoral God'; which command, 
the Christian Religion has falsely, attempted to charge up to the Supreme Being, 
which is nothing short of a libel, a desecration, a blasphemy, and a profanation 
of his Holy Being. 

And just to show that such falsehoods as are comprised in the dogmas 
above narrated, actually confounded the tongue of its utterer, that the children 
of the Supreme Being need not be trapped by the fetich teaching of the Bible 
or its expounders, by the very mouth of the witness, Paul, who in unnumbered 
instances, charges the sin of disobedience (upon which the Christian Religion 
is founded) to Adam, who by the law of contradiction, upsets and himself his 
babel of error, as expressed in I Tim. 2:14, by the words, ''Adam was not de- 
ceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression. ' ' But, your 
zealous sycophant will say. This is easily reconciled, since Eve was made of 
Adam's rib, poetic license would permit that Eve, herself, might be sometimes 
called Adam, and such metaphorical interpretation would leave no room for 
doubt. But, as history, such license is positively forbidden, and as such renders 
the entire story a contradiction and a falsity that must pass to the realm of 
sophistry. 

By act of Council A. D. 381, this Jesus or ''God with us" was voted to be 
an object of worship. The New Testament so depicts the character from the 
cradle to the ascension to the sky at Betheny. At the Council of Emperor 



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Theodosius the Great, A. D. 381, Jesus was voted, as incarnate by the Holy 
Ghost of the Virgin Mary. The New Testament Matt. 1:18 and Luke 1:35 so 
depicts the character. At the aforesaid council, it was voted that the atone- 
ment and crucifixion was for us. The fifth chapter of Romans in a dozen in- 
stances unites the dogmas of original sin, and salvation in Jesus for that sin 
in the relation of cause and effect, antecedent and consequent with the cause 
antedating the effect by its clandestine dates four thousand and sixty-five years. 
And I Cor. 15:22 state, ''For, as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 
made alive;" is the christian formula. And since the New Testament so graphic- 
ally sets forth this Council's acts, the evidence is conclusive that the characters, 
that the anonymous bishops use as heroes and subordinates to make up their 
scenes are based, on the judgments of the Council of Emperor Theodosius, A. D. 
381, and are found to be most fictitious, fallible, as well as most fabulous, and 
you may as well search for the real names, ages, ancestors, and descendants 
of Portia, Tubal, and Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, as to make 
the attempt upon the heroes and subordinate characters that are furnished in 
the New Testament, as incidents to bring out the relation of tyrant and subject: 
that those anonymous bishops have employed for the purpose. 

Dozens of manuscripts similar to the book of Matthew were written, of 
which Mark, Luke, and John are samples, some of the incidents in the scenes, 
agreeing, and some contradicting each other as in Mark 16:14:19 are the words, 
''After he had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven." Luke 
24:50:51, "At Bethany he was parted from them and carried up into heaven." 
Acts 1 :9:12, "A cloud received him out of their sight from Mt. Olivet. And 
Elija went up by a whirlwind into heaven. " II Kings, 2:11," No men hath ascend- 
ed up to heaven but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man. " 
John 3:13, Matt. 27:5, " Judas went out and hanged himself, " Acts, 1 :18, " Judas 
falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed oat. " 
"But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down 
on the right hand of God, till his enemies be made his footstool. " 

Heb. 10:12:13, and Heb. 9:22, are the words, "Without the shedding of 
blood there is no remission. " All these contradictions and aburdities, as fiction, 
simply shows that different bishops in elaborating upon the dogmas decreed 
by themselves during the council, leave behind them their several tempera- 
rnents in such language as footprints to know that they are not the handiwork 
of the same or a single bishop ; and that too, from the fact that the New Testa- 
ment contains several books, which reiterate the same stories in elaboration 
of the dogma: "For, as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive;" which also is evidence and that as many were engaged in dramatizing 
these dogmas, as there are signs of different temperaments engaged in filling 
in the detail from their individual fancy and imagination. 

But be it known that as fiction and fable, license could only criticise an 
untutored imagination, in these flagrant absurdities and contradictions ; but as 
events that once transpired by witnesses on the ground: these contradictions 
and falsifying narratives relegate the entire book to the realm of falsehood, 
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the reader is fiction and fable of a gross and immoral class, originating from words 
or perverted texts of Isaiah and Moses, as instanced Isa. 7:14, and Gen. 2:17, 
but as history the entire narrative is gone to absurdity by the law of contra- 
diction. Some devout clergymen pretend that they are almost frightened when 
they feel, on what an insignificant incident the great dogma of the fall of man 
arising, from Adam's disobedience hangs upon, and the narrow escape that the 
entire world of this Jewish God, had of being lost and saved, by the infallibility 
of those dogmas of sin, and redemption. Say they, if the church councils had 
not taken up the cause of humanity, the Original Sin of Adam, and the redemption 
for it in Jesus would have been lost to the world ; and the entire New Testament 
would have remained in oblivion, but for the Vulgate of Jerome and the Sep- 
taugint. Oh! What an unsearchable blessing, that we to-day are not every 
one of us Mahomedans, say the clergymen. This must have been the foreor- 
dained work set apart for the church, for she was the '^unresting loom" that 
wove the fabric of reconcilation between the Jewish God and the inhabitants 
of his dominion, who were estranged to one another by Adam's treachery dur- 
ing the first year of his existence. 

For say they, no other body of men in the Jewish God's dominion, would 
have had the intellectual nerve to have switched mythology or fiction into 
events, and events as the bodily death of Adam, back again to fiction, in order 
to place a metaphorical construction upon it, and so rear a double meaning 
and gain the claim, that it meant death of the spirit in the sin of disobedience ; 
not death of the body for dissolution, mindless how indefensible obedience to a 
command for perpetual ignorance must be ; together with the utter chagrin and 
downright jest upon the Jewish God's disposal of Adam. 

Then to clinch it as a spiritual truth, that necessitated a new sacrifice of 
human flesh to atone for it, since the sentence of the Jewish God to absolve 
the act whether sin or virtue had proven futile. 

And as the contagion of disobedience was gaining ground in the Empire 
of Theodosius, the Great; say they, this doctor St. Gregoey of Spiritual 
Divinity, was not a moment too soon with his sacrificial remedy, that the 
Emperor's subject might be washed in the Danube of atoning blood, which 
must affect an escape of all mankind from the palsy of Adam's disobedience. 
So that when quiet was resumed and the masses found that Adam's disobedi- 
ence, by the infallible decree and wisdom of the church, was the True Source 
of their Degradation and not as they had mistakenly supposed, to have 
originated from tyrants, despots or emperors. 

And when the bishops of the church from Europe, Asia and Africa, decided 
upon these glad tidings, (arrived at by perverting the meaning of Gen. 2:17, 
and apostatizing the words of Isa. 7:14, from which was tortured the great 
dogmas of Original Sin and redemption) and the bishops presented them to 
the priests, and the priests to the people. 

Then Emperors mounted their chariots as undisturbed as the sun that 
traverses the boundless depths of space. Insurrection had been averted. The 
mind of the masses took for granted and believed that Adam's disobedience was 
the cause of their own hard labor for life; as well as their own spiritual death, 



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the same as they do to-day; and by creed belief and assent, the pretended mis- 
fortune of disobedience to oppression is by the church made woeful sin, Original 
Sin, Sin unto the Death of the Soul. Does the church tell its Proselytes these 
things; and the reason of them? No more than the tyrant tells his subjects 
the reason that he demands obedience to his caprice. 

Does the church explain to its Proselytes the difference between the Jewish 
God, whose want of wisdom made him repent that he had made the men of his 
dominion at all; and changed his mind time and again? And the true ruler 
of the universe or Supreme Being, whose unalterable decrees are promulgated 
with such consumate wisdom, that in their execution he binds himself, by them 
as well as all the products of his Universe? Never. This is left for men of the 
future, to make manifest. Does the church give its Proselytes the reason for 
believing in its Jesus, Virgin Mary, Holy Ghost or Original Sin and redemption, 
wholly its invention, by apostatizing words away from their meaning in the 
original context, and a new meaning foisted upon them as a passport, emphasis, 
and license for degrading mankind. 

The reason for believing the Original Sin of Adam, perpetrated before 
he was twelve months old, an invention for the foundation of the dogma of 
Original Sin, reared by its perversion of the words, of Gen, 2:17, and ratified 
by the church as a dogma set forth explicitly (a dozen times in Romans, Chapter 
Five, and I Cor. 15:21:22). The reason for believing in the trinity, wholly its 
invention, the origin of which is the Jewish God, who deigns not to punish Adam 
for virtue, which settles the question of his genuineness, from the bar of the 
Moral Law. 

Does the church explain to its Proselytes the origin and purpose of the 
second person of the trinity, whose mission is to absolve an act of virtue, as 
and FOR a sin which settles the question of his genuineness before the bar 
of the Moral Law? Does the church explain to its Proselytes the origin and 
purpose of the third person of the trinity, whose mission was to engender the 
second person of the trinity, for the purpose of sustaining the first person of the 
trinity, in the punishment of virtue, which makes him a member of the firm in 
spirit as well as name; and that settles the question of his morality. 

Thus, this firm for fifteen centuries under the partnership title of Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost, have presumably done all the clerical business of chris- 
tians, greatly to the amusement of the Supreme Being, as well as greatly to the 
corruption of his moral universe as set up in the soul of man. Does the church 
give its Proselytes the reason for believing the dogmas of the Christian Religion 
as they are noted down in the New Testament, wholly its invention in the inter- 
est of Emperors under whose censorship its pages were written, the reason for 
believing the Old Testament, wholly the invention of writers in the employ of 
the throne. 

I will tell you the reason why you should reject them all: first, every God 
of these legends is a creature of human fancy and imagination, portrayed from 
the characteristics of a savage or barbarian chief, and the faculty of imagination 
can assist in the making of a picture, but can never give to the mind an Entity 
or the Supreme Being. That power belongs to the faculty of reason and law 
of inference termed, nonmenal perception. 



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The Jewish God of the imagination, which by adoption of the church, is 
made the origin of its trinity, and the God of its legends, in the New Testament 
and Christian Religion, who is made to perform acts which contradict the Moral 
Law, the principles of truth and right and to contradict by miracle with im- 
punity, the running order of the universe, which the deluded narrator with the 
free use of his fancy makes complete with the false phrase, that ''everything is 
possible with God " (meaning the Jewish God). Then to make assurance 
doubly sure, the deluded Porselyte cries, that is the way our God shows his 
power, by the fact, that he can stop the sun and moon, and even move them 
backward when he chooses; so wayward is the human fancy that made, wor- 
ships, and sustains the Jewish God. 

All of which is diametrically opposed to the law and order of the True Ruler 
of the world, who has decreed to man that the Moral Rational Intelligent use 
of his intuitions, and faculties is paramount to all else. Why should you reject 
the Holy Ghost: from the axiomatic truth that a part must partake of the 
nature of the whole, and this Holy Ghost, being a fraction of the Jewish God, 
can be of no greater validity than its origin; and its origin being a product of 
the imagination, the fruit of that origin can be no less so, and it should be 
clearly understood that the Holy Ghost of the Jewish God can in no possible 
manner stand for the Holy Spirit existing as a relation between mankind and 
the Supreme Being; and it is as essential for thought that the Holy Ghost of the 
Jewish God should not be confounded with the Holy Spirit, existing as a rela- 
tion between man and the Supreme Being, as it is that the Jewish God of imagi- 
nary myth should not be confounded with the entity. Supreme Being. 

Next, why should you reject the Holy Ghost of the Jewish God, for the 
reason that after the bishops of the church arbitrarily changed the Old Testa- 
ment from fiction or myth, to the history of men and events, so that by the 
mere apostatizing of words, doctrines, are clandestinely originated and for the 
purpose of covering the falsehoods that the change necessitated, this Holy 
Ghost of the Jewish God, was forced by the church to inspire it. Another 
reason why you should reject this Holy Ghost, is, if you tell a clergyman that 
you cannot reconcile the falsehoods of scripture, as history, arising from per- 
verted narratives, as Gen. 2:17 and Isa. 7:14, he will tell you that you are not 
wholly converted yet; or you miss the application; or you do not see with the 
spiritual eye, but if you pray to this Jewish God's Holy Ghost, that inspired 
the Bible when the change was made from fiction or myth, to the true history 
of men and events to inspire you from the falsehoods, so necessitated, then you 
will be reconciled and saved; thus impeaching the native impulses of the soul 
for right, truth and veracity. 

Why should you reject Original Sin? Because it makes the running order 
of the world designedly im.moral, and vice a matter of course, and virtue the 
exception to be absolved; besides it puts a premium on ignorance and crime, 
allowing and encouraging men to revel in good and evil, indiscriminately, with 
less scruple than the mere animal and all in behalf of the ends of the church or 
tyranny. 

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lously uses the word God as one of the performers in the fabulous dialogue, 
and he is forced to play the tyrant's part in the scene, which is debasing to any 
name that might with some, be mistaken for or made to stand for the Supreme 
Being, whom all men should revere. 

Why should you reject Jesus Christ? First, because he is an imaginary 
idol, being presumably a part of the imaginary Jewish God, and since by 
axiomatic truth, a part must partake of the nature of the whole, from which 
it is derived, and the fabulous Jesus, being such a part, can be of no greater 
validity than its origin; and its origin, being a product of the imagination, the 
fruit of that origin can be no less so. 

How came Jesus Christ to become an object of worship : He was made so, A.D, 
381, by one hundred and fifty bishops whose votes gave him that attribute, veri- 
fied by the New Testament throughout his legendary career. Second, because 
his pretended mission on earth was to forgive sin in all men, originating from 
the disobedience of Adam in the acquisition of knowledge contrary to command, 
manifestly showing that ignorance and unreasoned obedience was of greater 
merit in realms of tyranny and Biblical lore than the acquisition of knowledge 
or obedience to the right all, of which renders his mission on absurdity. 

Now then that no mistake can be ascribed to mistranslation as a makeshift, 
to screen the tyrannical character, of the writer of these Biblical legends and 
the unscrupulous use that he makes of the word God, to emphasize his dogma 
of indiscriminate obedience, and to this end he depicts Abraham's obedience 
to a command to slay his son, and when the preparation for sacrifice had gone 
so far that there '^ remained no hinge or loop to hang a doubt on, "this Bible 
God stayed his hand, and such obedience was counted righteousness, mani- 
festly showing that unreasoned obedience, was of greater merit in Biblical lore 
than the intuition of right in resisting murder, which is a demonstration of the 
narrator's utter ignorance of the Moral Law. Is any man of the present so 
senseless that he will adopt the rule of infantile obedience which is every whit 
that is meant by Original Sin, as set up in Biblical legends by writers who 
lacked the wisdom to conceive, that obedience, at the expense of right, truth, 
justice or knowledge of good and evil, or, at the expense of murder, is a vice, is 
a sin, is in positive contravention of the Moral Law. Certainly the dogma of 
obedience perpetuated upon such conditions proves, beyond all question, that 
a race so bewildered on principles of ethics are mere primitive savages or else 
obedience, has gone mad and the race is in their dotage. 

The decrees of the Supreme Being in the world about us become axioms of 
the human mind when discovered and adopted as ''all material bodies gravi- 
tate," ''Nature is uniform." "The whole is greater than a part." "The 
whole is equal to its parts." "Things equal to the same thing are equal to 
each other. " Phenomena demand noumenal existence, wisdom rejects con- 
tradiction. "Truth is the agreement of thought with reality. " The incidents 
of fables may be false as events and true as lessons, for a tyrant's caprice, in 
the subjection of his slaves, and false as lessons for citizens in a republic where 
the government has no other foundation than the reasons of its citizens such 
as they are. So that what is consistent with tyranny is absurd with equal 



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rights. Now the Bible: clergy and Proselyte believes, that this Bible God 
only shows his power when he contradicts the Supreme Being's universal laws, 
and that alone ought to be enough for any one whose powers are not totally 
withered. If we impose upon ourselves the fanaticism that this world is a nursery 
for the growth and development of man, which growth follows an existence 
born to contradict its conditions, lives by contradicting them as the church 
unmistakably indicates with its dogma that virtue is vice, clothed with the 
words Original Sin, the fall of man, and total depravity. If a man will persist 
in the belief of such nonsense, then the uninquiring limits human credulity is 
unbounded. So, likewise, to pretend that Adam was a sinner for disobedience 
to oppression, as the bishops that wrote the New Testament pretend he was, 
which positively puts a premium on ignorance for the masses, and caprice for 
the tyrant from Matthew to Revelation. And in particular by the words, 
Rom. 5:19 ''For, as by one man's (Adam's) disobedience many were made sin- 
ners, so, by the obedience, (that is in the submission to crucifixion as a sacri- 
fice and an atonement for Original Sin) of one (Christ) shall many be made 
righteous. " And I Cor. 15:22, ''For, as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall 
all be made alive. ^' And Rom. 5:12, " Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin 
entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for 
that all have sinned, " proves beyond any possibility of doubt that the bishops 
that wrote the New Testament were in the ranks of oppression and despotism, 
and proves beyond any possibility of doubt that the New Testament itself is a 
text-book of despotism and oppression to contain upon its pages the dogma 
that all men have sinned from the disobedience of one, when that disobedience, 
considering the fable and the principle of ethics involved by every principle 
of right, truth, and justice, was an act of the highest merit and a virtue, and is 
positively commanded by the Moral Law. 

The fact that the knave used the word "God, " in the attempt to establish 
tyranny and despotism, is no shelter to his vice, either for the writer of Genesis, 
or the bishops that wrote the New Testament and borrowed the scheme and 
adopted it, and with it, outwitted its God, by the impeachment of his decree for 
Adam's exile for absolution, and by the substitute of another victim to absolve 
the same offense. 

A writer who falsely ascribes tyranny to a God, in order to furnish an apol- 
ogy, passport or license for his rulers conduct, that the masses might mistake 
for the Supreme Being, can do no harm to the God or Supreme Being, but simply 
shows the writers knavery to any mind capable of knowing the true from the 
false. 

When we think aright, our thought accords with truth, when we act accord- 
ing to such thought, our act agrees with the Moral Law and by cultivating a 
relish for the true, each man is creating the kingdom of perfection within the 
realm of his own consciousness. 

The propagandist of error when convinced of his position, exclaims, if 
you "cancel and tear to pieces" this primal and eldest of Hebrew fabrications, 
what will prevent confusion while the change takes place; the greater the error 
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What at present is filling this chasm? Human beings identified with the 
false. Could any worse predicament be furnished them? 

Just think of the pranks that writers of myth and fiction have levied upon 
the Jewish God, which the indiscriminating masses, are taught by their clergy 
to believe to be the work of the only God in the universe. This Jewish God, 
who is never allowed by his narrators to show his power, except by contra- 
dicting some law or ordinance of the Supreme Being; as stopping the sun in 
heaven or turning it backward; drowning the world; staying the appetite of 
hungry lions, wresting fire of its power to scorch human hair. Neutralizing the 
gases in the whale's stomach, that for three days and three nights it is used as a 
floating house of prayer, making Adam of dust, and Eve of Adam's rib; piling 
up water in resistance to gravity; to accommodate the inhabitants of his domin- 
ion and close upon outsiders, making a Jesus Judge of Israel, B. G. 168; King 
of the Jews A. D. 33 ; generated as seed at Constantinople by the church, A. D. 
325; consigned to oblivion by the church at Rimini A. D. 359; raised from 
oblivion by the church, A. D. 381; dramatized as star character or hero on the 
pages of the New Testament, originating between the dates, A. D., 381, and 
431, in which is elaborated his advent, prenatal and subsequent exploits and 
life, together with his narrated mission, as a character in the Christian Religion, 
which makes him a sin offering for Adam's disobedience, in addition to the life 
sentence already served out by Adam himself to expiate his disobedience to a 
command, for crushing the aspiration of knowledge of good and evil as well as 
for eternal life. 

Designated by the church. Original Sin, which passes equally and frac- 
tionally upon all men, which places the Jewish God in the awkward predica- 
ment of punishing an act of virtue, which his prerogative was powerless to 
absolve, even by Adam's expulsion from Eden; and Jesus Christ is in no less 
an awkward predicament by a second attempt at absolution of the same act, 
which of necessity lands both the Jewish God, in unity as well as the Jewish God 
in trinity, whether by mistake or the design of their inventors in the ranks of 
vice and oppression; and Adam's virtue by oppression is punished as a vice and 
treated as a vice by both these Gods and the unconscionable writers which set 
them up; and use them as an apology or license for their own, or their rulers 
wickedness. 

Not only is Adam's virtue punished as vice, but the church of Christendom 
takes up the case and makes all men sinners through Adam's disobedience, and 
the Proselyte who accepts the proffered reward of pardon and eternal life, is 
condemned to assent to the pictorial homicide of Christ's crucifixion, becoming 
thereby a theoretical ^'particeps criminis, " or accessory after the fact. 

Now then, this Biblical legendary Jewish God which is merely the concoction 
of human fancy or the imagination, faculties, which are as powerless to give to 
the mind an eternal entity, (a knowledge of which is confined to the power of 
reason) as a picture of peaches could give to a man the actual fruit; they can 
feed the fancy, but not the body; so likewise, imaginary Gods can do nothing 
but feed the fancy; but not the soul's principle that feeds by the use of reason 
and law of inference upon realities. 



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The Bible Gods are without exception, products of human fancy, as is 
their imputed conduct and talk with men. But the Supreme Being is an 
Existence, an Entity, a Reality, that speaks to man through his moral and 
secular laws, like truth , right, gravity or growth; realities which can be only 
grasped by the power of reason. 

The Biblical legendary Gods, that only show their power by the fabulous 
Cjontradiction of some law or ordinance, moral or secular, of the Supreme Being, 
dwindle into insignificance when you pause to consider that the chief exploit 
ascribed to any of them, was to stop and turn back the sun a few hours, to 
accommodate a hoard of savages to complete the act of killing each other. 

When the Supreme Being launched it in space and has run it according to 
unalterable decree ever since. And so we might go through the entire category 
of these Biblical Gods, antics and pranks which are not a drop in the ocean to 
the regular works of the Supreme Being. 

The God believed in by the christian, while sharing the hospitality of a 
night's lodging with the God Dagon, knocked him down the first night, the 
second night maimed him, on his own premises. What could you expect of 
christians, who worship and are lead by such a God? Can they be idolators? 
Such Gods were invented for tyranny and caprice, and will chain the masses 
for awhile, or at least until they perceive the design or purpose for which such 
Gods were invented. 

But the Supreme Being rules all things and it is only a question of time when 
the imaginary counterfeit must vanish. It is more than manifest to a man of 
the least vestige of moral sense, thought, and reflection that the story of Adam 
is a myth, and Adam being a clay-made product, with the Jewish God as cause 
the cause, must partake of the nature of the effect, at least sufficiently so as to 
produce the effect. But the effect, Adam being a myth, his creator, as cause, 
as far as that goes, follows the fate of the effect, and that leaves Adam's creator 
a mythical God. Strictly confined for his origin to the imagination of the 
narrator. Gal. 4:22:23:24 are the words the meaning of which is unmistakable. 
'Tor, it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond maid, the 
other by a free woman. But, he who was of the bond woman, was born after 
the flesh, but he of the free woman was by promise which things are an alle- 
gory, " which means a myth or fiction. Now then this Abraham is fiction, and 
he is an effect, and whatever is his cause must partake of the nature of the 
effect. Since the mere fancy of the narrator, sets up the relation, to that fancy 
is the relation confined. Ex. 3:15, are the words ascribed to the God, Moses, 
''And God said moreover unto Moses, thus thou shalt say unto the children of 
Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the 
God of Jacob hath sent me unto you. This is my name forever, and this is 
my memorial unto all generations." Since by the anonymous writers of the 
New Testament, Jesus Christ is; (in two several genealogies, Matt. 1-1-17 and 
Luke 3:23:38), a positive descendant from the mythical Abraham, and, since 
the effect can have no greater validity than its cause, Jesus Christ, by the rule 
of axiomatic truth, is a myth, and, since Jesus Christ is God the Son, God the 
Son is a myth, and, since, God the Son is equal with God the Father, God the 



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Father is a myth and God the Holy Ghost, who by act of council in Spain A. D. 
447, proceeds from both Father and Son He must be a myth. By the anonymous 
writers of the New Testament, Gal. 4:24, Abraham is pronounced an allegorical 
character, and is, consequently, a myth. And, since the Jewish God, is made 
by his own mouth to pronounce himself, Ex. 3:15 by the words, ''The God of 
Abraham sent me unto you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial 
unto all generations. " And that no mistake be made that the writers of the 
New Testament have adopted this God of Abraham which is the Jewish God 
of mythology : the anonymous bishops copy into Matthew the words. Matt. 22 : 
22:31 :32, by the mouth of God the Son "' have ye not read that which was spoken 
unto you by God saying, I am the God of Abraham." Mark 12:26 by the 
mouth of God the Son: '^ Have ye not read in the book of Moses how in the bush 
God spake unto him saying I am the God of Abraham. " Thus the writers 
themselves in an unguarded moment affirm that these characters are allegorical 
myths. 

Also Luke 20:37 by the mouth of God the Son, ''Moses, when he calleth 
the Lord the God of Abraham. " (Called Abram for 158 years, then God 
changed his name to Abraham B. C. 1898, Gen. 17:5). Also the anonymous 
bishops, by the book called the Acts of the Apostles write Chapter 7:31:32. 
"The voice of the Lord from the burning bush came to Moses, saying, "I am 
THE God of thy Fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, and the 
God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and durst not behold." Now then if 
Abraham is a myth or a personification of the sign Ram of the Zodiac as 
Melchisadec is of the pale star, which is verified by the anonymous writers of the 
New Testament, who declare the account of Abraham and his sons to be an 
allegory, it follows, by necessity, that the God of the mythical Abraham is 
positively a mythical God, for Abraham is an effect and this God is bound to 
Abraham in the relation of cause from Exodus to the book of Romans. But, 
since the fate of the cause must follow the fate of the effect, when Abraham 
is a myth, the Jewish God according to the relations invented by his biographers, 
or HIS CAUSE is a myth. And, since God the Son derives his origin through the 
allegorical Abraham by both genealogies Matt. I and Luke 3, the axiom that 
the fate of the effect must follow the fate of its cause, arises: therefore God the 
Son is, by axiomatic truth, a myth. And since, by act of Council A. D. 447, 
the Holy Ghost in Spain was made to proceed by vote from both God the 
Father and God the Son, and, since God the Father or the Jewish God in unity 
is bound to Abraham as cause, and, since God the Son in trinity is bound to 
Abraham as effect or descendant, and, since Abraham is a myth, his pictorial 
origin is no less so and his descendant, God the Son, is a myth. And, since 
God the Father is a myth, and God the Son is a myth, and God the Holy Ghost, 
as now worshipped by Christians, derived his origin from God the Father, and 
God the Son, by act of Council A. D. 447, the fate of the effect must follow the 
fate of its cause. Hence God the Holy Ghost by axiomatic truth is a myth. 
Thus the Supreme Being as in the case formulated of Adam's sin by the words, 
"For, as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" has con- 
founded the tongue of the utterer hy the words "Adam was not deceived, but 



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the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression." So, likewise, has the 
Supreme Being confounded the utterance of all the Bishops who wrote Matthew, 
Mark, Luke, and Acts which followed the immoral writer of Exodus 3:15 with 
an invincible anxiety lest this God of Abraham should slip away from them 
since he was never anything but an object of human fancy confined to the pages 
of mythology and the mind of the superstitious. So these several bishops have 
anchored the Jewish God to Abraham as also did they anchor God the Son to 
Abraham in two several genealogies. Math. 1, Luke 3. But those immoral 
bishops have anchored this Jewish God and God the Son to a myth of their 
own adoption from which their skill is powerless to extricate them. They 
have pronounced Abraham and his two sons a mere figure of rhetoric in Gal. 
4:22:23:24:25:26 of which Hagar, the bond maid, ''answereth to Jerusalem 
which NOW is, — but Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of 
us all," and the bishops conclude Gal. 4:31, ''So, then brethern, we are not 
children of the bond- woman, but of the free. " Now this metaphor or figure 
of rhetoric in which Abraham is indissolubly bound up, in which God the Father 
is inseparably linked, from which God, the Son is a positive descendant by two 
different genealogies, and from which father and Son, God the Holy Ghost pro- 
ceeds A. D. 447 by act of Council. So that this sublime Trinity of Christian 
Gods, which the anonymous bishops attempt first to bind as both the origin 
and descendants of Abraham, Math. 1:1, and Luke 3 :23-38 inclusive, but which 
they completely wreck Gal. 4:24 by their own admission that Abraham is a 
creature of allegorical fancy, which completely breaks up the firm from that 
origin, and confines them to the Jewish God alone. Then, to make their 
origin doubly secure, should one source fail, one hundred and fifty bishops use 
King Ahaz's time riddle delivered B. C. 742 and the figures of speech or rhetorical 
flourish there made use of, to exhibit a time relation, which positively expired 
within three years from its origin; yet should the Abraham source and origin 
of these Gods break down, they could anchor their Gods to the Virgin Mother, 
in the sign of King Ahaz by the apostatization of words : a method always avail- 
able, and an hypostatic union of their product, with the Holy Ghost could rally 
to their rescue, but that source of the origin of the sublime Trinty has been 
aptly demonstrated no less mythical infallible and inspired than the one from 
Abraham. Thus you have a complete Trinity of Pagan, mythological Gods 
anchored to Abraham on the one hand and to King Ahaz virgin on the other. 
But, for all this effort to make valid and permanent this sublime Trinity, whose 
sole function on earth is to force the masses into the admission that it was right 
to punish Adam for obedience to the moral law of the Supreme Being when 
such obedience came in to a collision with a command (even when positively im- 
moral from the particular God of a tribe, by the mouth of the Moses or chief, king 
or Emperor of that tribe. But that is just the point that makes the mission of 
that sublime trinity immoral, and, being immoral, no amount, hooking on to an 
Abraham (who would obey a command at the expense of murder as quick as any 
man with no sense of moral obligation whatever) or a King Ahaz's time riddle 
for anchorage will save them from wreck, when met by the cyclone, of the equil- 
ibrium of the moral forces of the Supreme Being. It may be asked, why dwell 
on this mythological trinity of Gods, all of whom stand for the punishment of 



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virtue in Adam, which punishment is positively immoral in the universe of the 
Supreme Being, and the moral law is the positive line of demarcation between 
the true and the false whether Gods or men; and only those philosophers which 
are sensible to the Moral Law as set up in the human soul are capable of making 
the application of the Moral Law to any object whether arising from fiction, 
fable, or actual existence as a test of the genuineness of the actual integrity 
of the character or being under contemplation. Since most men follow leaders, 
it is absolutely essential that these leaders should be pure, and stand for uncom- 
promising virtue. Very few men dare pass judgment on the morality of an 
act which writers ascribe to their God, but an act cannot pass from the immoral 
to the moral from the fact that it is assigned by an inspired writer even to your 
particular God. But, if an act is immoral, and you are sure it proceeds from 
your God, or from the writer which originates or uses him for his purpose, the 
first thing to do is to dispense with your God, for you may be sure that you are 
anchored to a false one, and if so your prospect for progress is infinitely less than 
as though your allegience was properly confined to the Supreme Being the 
only original entity for intelligence. If a writer depicts a God, and that God is 
immoral in his treatment of men or animals for sacrifices, that God is a creature 
of an immoral human fancy or imagination and is a false one. Whatever stands 
as cause of the universe must be adequate at least to all effects whether moral 
or secular. However, the Supreme Being will be found adequate in point of 
morality, that is he cannot be charged up with immoral conduct ; since the 
Moral Law is his ordinance. Now who are the believers in the Supreme Being 
that is only accepted by the legitimate action of the human faculties, that 
accepts the axiom that every effect must have a cause, that the cause must be 
equivalent or adequate to the effect that accepts the axiom that ''Nature is 
uniform," and that the cause back of nature, must be equivalent or adequate to 
the effect, and therefore uniform, and that it is the province of the thinking 
man to see the Supreme Being in the regular law and order of the world; not in 
the extravagant concoctions of a barbarous clergy, that would magnify miracles 
and contradictions to that uniformity, in order to provoke fear or bewilderment 
in the mind of the masses, ascribing these miracles and contradictions to a God, 
of opposite proclivities, from those arising from the ordinances, of the Supreme 
Being; and the natural order of the universe and setting up that God in the 
imagination of the indis criminating masses as the true one. 

Will the church ever put away its swaddling clothes? Did you ever notice 
that when this adopted God of the christian drowned his whole dominion 
(in the water of ignorance) and that too, for the unqualified obedience of his 
subjects to his command to Adam, he forgot to mention Original Sin, or else 
in those early days, it escaped the notice of his clerical vicegerents, not having 
at that time the attributes of omniscience and omnipresence conferred upon him 
by the bishops who gave him in trinity his mother at Constantinople, A. D. 381, 
and at Ephesus A. D. 431, and at Spain A. D. 447, from the word ''Virgin'' of 
the time riddle of King Ahaz of B. C. 742, however vehemently Nestorius, 
patriarch of Constantinople affirmed that such gifts of motherhood, applied to 
different fractions of their God, would be in direct justification of the folly of 



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the Pagans, who likewise conferred motherhood upon the Deific fractions of 
their God. 

But this heresy of Nestorius was condemned, and God the Father was 
given the Virgin of King Ahaz's time riddle for a mother, A. D. 431, at the 
council of Ephesus, convoked by Theodosius, the Younger; as God the Son 
who had been given, the same virgin, for a mother A. D. 381 at Constantinople, 
at the council of Theodosius the Great, which makes God the Father and God 
the Son, half-brothers by virtue of the Virgin Mary as mother; and God the 
Son, fifty years the elder brother. 

This is easy when the reason is perverted and the emotions have full sway 
in the Proselyte. Biblical fiction in effect declares that Adam's expulsion from 
Eden did not absolve his act of disobedience or Original Sin, which the Jewish 
God had wholly forgotten about from the fact that nine hundred and twenty- 
nine years at hard labor seemed a sufficient expiation for what power he had 
achieved during his first year in distinguishing good from evil. And this inci- 
dent added to this God's oath, made to Abraham for his child-like obedience 
to the immoral command to murder his son, whereby this God swore by him- 
self that for such obedience he would bless, (not curse), all of the nations of the 
earth, since Abraham had proven his fidelity to a command of his God equal 
to that of other Pagans, in sacrificing human victims to their Gods. 

But in flattery to this God, the bishop courtiers at the throne of Theodosius 
the Great, who are the originators of our Holy Christian Religion, refreshed the 
Jewish God's memory and wrath as well, which was originally so aroused B. C. 
4004, by the disobedience of Adam, to whom this Jewish God by his confessor 
Moses, had prohibited the knowledge of good and evil; but whose divine wrath 
was intermittently abated by the obedience of Abraham, which the flood had 
failed to assuage, or even the fires of Sodom and Gomorrah, had failed to quench; 
yet, after the Lord had smelled a sweet savor or two, from Noah's burnt offer- 
ing, B. C. 2348, Gen. 8:21 and 9:14:16, ^'the Lord said in his heart, I will not 
again curse the ground any more for man's sake; and it shall come to pass when 
I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud (to refresh 
my memory and remind me of the covenant to protect all flesh and every living 
creature) that is, upon the earth." 

Yet in just four hundred and fifty years, this same Jewish God, is said (by 
the quill of his confessor Moses, the adopted son at the court of Pharaoh) to 
have rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, fire and brimstone because ten per- 
sons could not be found in those cities, which are disobeying his orders to Adam, 
prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil. 

But just twenty-six years later, this Jewish God, was so delighted with 
Abraham's unswerving obedience, to the command for the sacrifice of his son 
as a burnt offering : proving that his allegieance to the Jewish God was as good 
as other Pagans are to theirs, so that by the mouth of an angel, he spake to 
Abraham, ''By myself I have sworn that in thy seed shall all the nations of the 
earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice. 

Could this possibly be the Supreme Being; a God which could only be 
moved to friendship by obedience at the expense of the willing offering of a son 



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or human sacrifice; could you blame his followers for imitating savage subjects 
when their God imitated savage Gods. Manifestly this God had either for- 
gotten the sin of Adam, or had decided that the merits of Abraham should 
cancel Adam's demerits and that; should balance or settle the account, with a 
balance in favor of blessing; and that such blessing according to oath, should 
abound to all the nations of the earth. 

Yet, when the bishops of the church adopted this Jewish God for the Chris- 
tian Religion in order to entice him to break his oath they reasoned with him 
thus: you have sworn to do altogether too much for the ignorant masses on 
account of Abraham's obedience. Have you alread}^ forgotten the flaunt in the 
face of your high majesty, from the Moral Law, administered b}^ one Adam, 
whose acts were in allegiance to the Moral Law, of the Supreme Being? I know, 
replies this God, but I made him serve nine hundred and twenty-nine years at 
hard labor, to offset that: To offset that! Offset nothing, replies his vice- 
gerents, not all of his descendants in your dominion could offset so heinous an 
offense to your high majesty, from blocks of clay. We are your vicegerents, on 
the earth. We who are learned in fractions, and can make j^ou into a trinity, for 
which we will pretend to offer up to you, a sacrifice of one-third part of yourself, 
to appease your wrath, which shall be merely a form or pantomime crucifixion, 
which shall in no possibly manner inflict upon you any harm and when we lay 
the scene we'll shuffle our dates in such a manner that time shall outwit sham. 
Whereupon, we will bring the stiff-necked masses to our altars for penance and 
repentance; we will make the affront suffered by you from Adam's disobedience 
infinitely divisible and fractional, and each man in your dominion, forever to be 
born shall share his aliquot part; and that will abase the stubborn, masses and 
bring them to the altar of prostration, before the feet of your vicegerents. 

Forget the merit of Abraham, and remember only the sin of Adam, for 
he is backed by the Supreme Being and his disobedience is ratified by his Moral 
Law. Abraham's obedience is not; his obedience was immoral before the bar 
of the Supreme Being, because murder is involved in the command. Adam's 
disobedience was moral, because perpetual ignorance was involved in the com- 
mand, and nothing cuts down your vicegerents and the Gods we set up, like 
that Supreme Being's Moral Laws; besides the crucifixion of one member of 
your trinity shall only a be sham, mere pantomime; but We'll make the 
Masses Cringe for it. Very well, replies the Jewish God in unity, thou shalt 
prevail. So St. Gregory of Nazianzus, President of ^he council and his one 
hundred and fifty coadjutors, settle down upon Original Sin, the fall of man, 
away from this immoral Jewish God's dominion to the unknown Supreme Being, 
and the total depravity of such a thing. 

St. Gregory imagined for the suppression and oppression of the masses, 
that this Original Sin or tendency to Disobey Oppression, and to resist ignor- 
ance in defiance of the law laid down by the Jewish God to Adam, had been 
now running at large undiscovered and unchecked for four thousand three hun- 
dred and eighty-five years throughout all the nations of the earth. He was 
bound to have Original Sin cover as large an horizon, at least as did this Jewish 
God's oath for the blessing of all nations; and that the sin was transmitted from 



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parent to offspring since the year that Cain was born; Adam then being in his 
second year, Original Sin having been committed and Adam's expulsion from 
the Garden of Eden, having been affected some time during his first year. 

This council of Theodosius declared as a consequence of Adam's disobedi- 
ence that mankind are born so guilty for using their intuitions, of truth and 
right, even, to resist any form of oppression, that their offspring even while 
infants, are by the wrath of the Jewish God, in unity, certainly damned forever 
unless regenerated by the fraction agreed upon that should be seggregated as 
God the Son, crucified and offered a sacrifice in pantomime as absolution for 
the tendency in all men to resist ignorance and oppression. And to this end 
the Jewish God in trinity, concluded '^all in unbelief that he might have mercy 
upon all;" and the same God or a fraction of him saith, '^he that belie veth not 
shall be damned, " verified Rom. 11:32:33, and Mark 16:16, and formulated I 
Cor. 15:22, '^For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

Some of the more gracious bishops sprung to the rescue of infants and the 
little Original Sinners; and discovered a Limbo, where they might vegetate 
awhile for a substantial consideration, but that hope sank beneath the waves 
of oblivion during the time of John Calvin, who declared that (under the doc- 
trine of predestination, since the Jewish God has concluded all in unbelief), 
Hell was paved with infants' skulls. 

Why does the Christian Proselyte persist in the belief of a God that con- 
tinually by the intervention of his inspired writers, contradicts the regular 
running order of the world as managed by the Supreme Being, who stopped the 
sun, changed water into wine, wrested fire of its power to scorch human hair, 
gave hungry lions the power to discriminate that certain theological opinions 
would unfit man for food, that the gasses of a whale's stomach could effect 
meditation, and change a disobedient evangelist to a preacher of the Gospel; 
that the sea would let some walk upon its bosom, and refuse others, that the 
air of this Jewish God's dominion would admit some human bodies to traverse 
her depths while gravity claims others as its subjects, that a pair of every 
species of animal is domesticated in the Ark submitting, like the American to his 
church, insensible to a knowledge upon the subject, while others think for them- 
selves. Do animals even teach their young obedience to their will? Contra- 
dicting the ordinances of nature. Any man or woman who knows that the 
evident, self-evident, and axiomatic truth which is contained in the words 
''Nature is uniform, " any human being who knows that an axiom can have no 
exception whatever, ought to have sense enough to know that who ever con- 
tradicts such truth must have only an identity with the false and absurd. 
Any mind armed with the fortitude that the truth ''Nature is uniform" fur- 
nishes must, for its own maintenance, and self-preservation, cancel every utter- 
ance from any source written or spoken which contradicts such truth. Then 
and only then is the mind prepared to inhabit the world of truth. 

Why does the Christian Proselyte believe absurdities which contradict 
the axiom that "Nature is uniform?" Why he says, or is taught to say that 
it shows his God's power that he can contradict the order of nature. Who is 
the author of the order of nature? The Supreme Being. Well then Your 



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God shows his power when he contradicts the order of the Supreme Being? 
Yes. Do men show their power by contradicting the intuition of right, an 
ordinance of the Supreme Being? No. That is the way men show their 
weakness, not their power. So, likewise, do inferior Gods (reduced to trinities 
by perversion and contradiction of mythical narrative or men who set them up) 
show their weakness. The bis hopsof the church have concocted a trinity of 
Gods of their own make, for the emergency, and have heaped upon them the 
attribute of self-contradiction as well as the contradiction of each other which 
makes it far easier to imitate when led by passion and emotion. But the man 
governed by reason prefers the Supreme Being of law and order such as is dis- 
played in nature about him to a Jewish God whose every several fraction 
emerged from parentage, and God the Father fifty years later than God the 
Son with the Virgin Mary for a mother at that, which Virgin was apostatized 
from mere words to indicate duration, verified Isa. 7:14. 

To obey the order of the universe is the line of least resistance for both 
those guided by the law of instinct; or intuition and axiomatic truth, adjusted 
to and regulated by conscious moral intelligence for all others are consigned 
to perish sooner or later as only possibilities of self-adjustment, taking pleasure 
in contradiction, unrighteousness, humility and absurdity. 

One phase of the task of a committee in the attempt to equip and qualify 
missionaries for foreign lands; and the endeavor to place before the aspiring 
candidate, some of the trials that they are liable to encounter. The heathen, 
(usually a worshipper of idols, or some material symbol which directs his feeble 
power of attention to what he regards to be the Supreme Being) will treat you 
even better, than you would one of them, should he come to your land and 
attempt to intrude his persuasion upon you. If they can understand your 
language, before accepting your persuasion, they will desire to know the origin 
of your religion, which would call for the detail of Original Sin, total depravity, 
the fall of man, and the conditions of resitution or redemption.. 

How the first man, Adam, was prohibited the knowledge of good and evil, 
which means in ordinary vernacular, that if an impulse for such knowledge 
should present itself , to the would be, christian, in the dominion of the Jewish 
God, you are commanded to smother it, avoid it, treat it as a total stranger, 
that you neither know, or want to know anything about. Some one might ask, 
what can you detect this impulse by, when it does appear in such a manner so as to 
treat this false inclination — for knowledge of good and evil as a perfect stranger. 
Explain to them that Adam was apt to get hungry and wish for food; his 
intuition of resemblance or prompter to discriminate, now below the threshhold 
of consciousness, would instinctively move him to discriminate and choose the 
good and refuse the bad, which will occasion or evoke the idea, or at least the 
use of the principle, of resemblance, to arise in consciousness. Then by the 
use of a necessary idea or its equivalent Adam would be forever afterward 
tempted to choose- the good and refuse the bad. But the use of this power to 
discriminate, Adam was positively forbidden to employ on pain of death. Some 
one might ask, what Adam was given the intuitive idea or prompter of resem- 
blance for, if all his acts were to obey commands which contradict the possibil- 



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ity of their use, then might arise to consciousness the question of Gods and their 
true dominion. 

The heathen might say, you must be on trail of the wrong God, for no 
genuine God would be so senseless as to create powers for human welfare, as 
correlates of his universe and then prohibit their normal use; such would involve 
at once a contradiction; consequently your Jewish God must be a total stranger, 
to both our Supreme Being and his universe; consequently you seem to be in a 
worse fix than we are. 

Prohibit the knowledge of good and evil ! Well, such as it was at that age, 
a total abstinence of all such knowledge would have been no great misfortune! 
The question of right and wrong, good and evil, or the use of the power of resem- 
blance if it helps in the selection of the good and rejection of the bad, it must 
be salutary; and that must evoke another intuitive idea which is expressed by 
the word right. 

Some one might ask what Adam was given the untuitive idea or power 
of right for, if he is denied the necessary use of it, and all his acts are to obey 
commands which contradict that power, then would arise, to consciousness, a 
sense of obligation to do the right, and omit the wrong. If the use of the idea 
of resemblance helped in the selection of the good, that alone proves such 
knowledge to be salutary. 

Some one might ask what Adam was given the sense of obligation for, if 
all his acts, were to obey commands, which contradict the sense, that he ought 
or ought not to do a given act. Then in connection with the doing of the act: 
arises the judgment of approbation or joy, for the fulfillment of the right, which 
is shared by the doer as well as others. 

All of which questions, must in no manner be allowed to frustrate the 
composure of the missionary by the exposure of his own fetters, or the sham of 
his own God. Meet all of the heathen's demands from reason with the appear- 
ance of doing good for evil, and go on with the plan of Original Sin: stating 
how Adam in his ungratitude to his maker the Jewish God, disobeyed the com- 
mand prohibiting him the knowledge of good and evil, the very first year of his 
life. 

Some one might say at that age, Adam could not sin at all, his powers 
would be incapable of accountability. 

Treat the heathen with respect, and go on stating that the knowledge in 
the language of the God issuing the command, was ''behold the man has become 
as one of us to know good and evil. " 

Some one might say, well taking into account the nature of the Jewish God, 
such a similarity must be very damning, and evoke at once the sentence upon 
Adam of nine hundred and twenty-nine years at hard labor. Another might 
say, do your Gods grow powers in the inhabitants of their dominion and then pro- 
hibit their use, and do the' -prohibit their subjects from doing what they indulge 
in themselves, and he might say to tempt you further, we know such conduct 
to be the rule of tyrants but our Gods never act that way : unless some Scoun- 
drel to License his own Meanness, first Reads it into his God in order to 
CORRUPT HIS OWN CONSCIENCE and then claim.s that he is a faithful follower 



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of HIS God, which was often the case with the ancient Jews, (Egyptians and 
Syrians,) which they copied after. Besides, I thought you only had One God, 
but when your God says, ''behold the man has become as one of us, to know good 
and evil, '' he as much as says that in his dominion there is a plurality of Gods. 
Treat the heathen with respect and go on with Original Sin. 

Adam was driven from the Garden of Eden and sentenced to hard labor for 
life. Some heathen might say, punish Adam after admitting him God-like, 
surely your Gods are self-confessed lawbreakers, to punish an act that makes a 
man like themselves; Real Gods furnish mankind their Standards of Integrity 
and Perfection; not license for sin, guile and iniquity. Retain your com- 
posure and go on with Original Sin. It was an act of disobedience the very 
first year of Adam's life to a command prohibiting the knowledge of good and 
evil that Adam was punished for, verified by the dates of the Pentateuch cover- 
ing Gen. 2:17, and 3:6:22:23:24. If the heathen says, a knowledge of good and 
evil, that is, sufficient knowledge to choose the good and refuse the evil, is a 
law of nature or is a law of the True Supreme Being of the universe; and is 
sanctioned and justified by the intuitions of right, of truth, of cause and of mind 
itself, which in man, are correlates of the universe of which he is a part, being 
ordinances of its Supreme Being. 

Yet to silence such gainsayers, read from the New Testament, Rom. 5:12, 
the words, ''Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by 
sin, so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. " Followed by the 
words, Rom. 5:19, "Wherefore as by one man's disobedience many were made 
sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. " Followed 
with Rom. 11:32, "For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he might have 
mercy upon all" and Mark 16:16, which says "He that believeth not shall be 
damned." 

Some heathen might say, why that out-tyrants tyranny, for the most 
blood-thirsty specimens among them, will not include all in unbelief, and then 
dam them for not believing, or even treat all as disobedient, for fear of their 
own heads, (but I see the reason for your clandestine dating back of such narra- 
tive), they will at least, have their troops baptized in the Danube of oppression, 
if for no other reason than policy. 

The tyrant would feign rectitude at least of his troops as did Emperor 
Theodosius the Great, that he might enlist into his ranks an army of barbarian 
baptized Goths — then you proceed with redemption, describe that Adam's dis- 
obedience was taken up by the church that is, four thousand three hundred and 
eighty-five years, after Adam disobeyed for which he was sentenced to hard 
labor as an expiatory penalty; and that punishment in case of Sin should end 
the expiation, but when an act is a Virtue, in itself, it takes more than 
exile to absolve it. a God must pay the penalty, with both soul and body. 

Not only so , but Adam being the first man of thp Jewish God, whatever he 
did , must have a bearing upon the entire race of his descendants in that dominion, 
and since he disobeyed a command of his God prohibiting the knowledge of 
good and evil, and since the church ratifies such a command delivered in open 
defiance of the Moral Law; and since A. D. 381, by the decree of its bishops, it 



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still continues to treat or to pronounce Adam's disobedience a sin; and since 
Adam's disobedience was, then by the church, decreed to be a sin, equally and 
fractionally in all who inhabit the Jewish God's dominion, that is, the scripture 
that those bishops wrote, ''Concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of 
Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. " ''Concluded all under sin 
(are the words and that takes in the heathens of all nations;) that the promise 
by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. " A heathen might 
ask what must happen to the entire race of your Jewish God, if this Jesus Christ 
never existed at all, and the prophecy used Matt. 1:23, from Isa. 7:14, was not 
in reference to a human being at all, but the figures are used to show the expira- 
tion of time. Would faith in him then count for anything? I should say not, 
for our scripture saith 'If Christ be not raised then is our preaching vain, your 
faith is vain, ye are are yet in your sins, and they that are fallen asleep in Christ 
are perished. " 

Some heathen might say, you wager the eternal destiny of your race on a 
rather precarious incident, I should think. Tell me in detail the origin of this 
Christ, as you find it in your legends. 

Well, about eleven hundred and twenty odd years, previous to the origin 
of the New Testament, by the church; in a Jewish Book ascribed to Isaiah, 
Chapter seven, verse 3:4, "The Lord said to Isaiah, go forth to meet Ahaz, 
and say to him, take heed, be quiet, fear not, neither be faint hearted, for the 
two tails of these smoking fire-brands, (meaning Rezin King of Syria, and Pekah 
King of Israel, who had laid siege to Jerusalem.) The Lord spake again unto 
Ahaz, saying, ask thee a sign, of the Lord thy God, (being a son of King David 
the Jewish God claimed him whether or no,) but Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither 
will I tempt the Lord. (This Ahaz knowing the jealous nature of the adherents 
of this particular Jewish God, who was liberally sacrificing to all manner of other 
Jewish Gods) and made his son to pass through the fire according to the abom- 
inations of the heathen who sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and 
on the hills and under every green tree, " verified, II Kings 16:3:4, B. C, 742, 
''And in the time of his distress did he (meaning King Ahaz) tresspass; yet the 
more against the Lord, for he sacrificed unto the Gods of Damascus, which 
smote him (and this very utterance in an unguarded phrase lets light upon one 
as well as another of the Gods, whose qualities are read into them by their 
makers, among whom the Jewish God is no exception) and he said, because the 
Gods of the Kings of Syria, help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that 
they may help me, (good logic and the precise reason that actuated Constantine 
to adopt for the christian the Jewish God in the place of the Supreme Being of 
Seneca) but they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel" verified II Chron. 28: 
22:23, B. C. 740. 

"But he (Ahaz) did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, (that 
is the Jewish God,) like David his father, for he walked in the ways of the Kings 
of Israel, and made also molten images for Balim, he burnt incense in the Valley 
of the Son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire after the abombinations 
of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel," 
verified II Chron. 28:1:2:3 A. D. 741. 



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Some heathen might ask if the Jewish God is real, why is he offering proph- 
ecies for the comfort of such a heathen as King Ahaz. Nevertheless, Isaiah, 
a prophet of the Jewish God said to Ahaz, A. D. 742, ''the Lord Himself shall 
give you a sign, behold a virgin shall conceive and bare a son and shall call his 
name Immanuel, butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the 
evil and choose the good, for before the child shall know to refuse the evil and 
choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her 
kings, " that is to say, in less time than it takes to grow an infant from concep- 
tion to the period in which a child should know to refuse the evil and choose 
the good, Pekah the King of Israel, and Rezin King of Syria should be removed 
from power, this sign was delivered by the prophet of the Jewish God, for the com- 
fort of the idolator Ahaz, B. C. 742, and B. C. 740, Rezin King of Syria, was 
slain, verified II Kings 16:9, and B. C. 739. Pekah King of Israel, was slain, 
verified II Kings 15:30. Thus the sign completed its purpose within three 
years of its utterance which leaves the child of the metaphor or sign two and a 
fraction years of age, and since the sign issued B. C. 742, and Pekah the last 
king perished B. C. 739, as verified II Kings 15:30, leaves the problem thus 
742 — 739=3, and thus the prenatal and subsequent period of this child's existence 
to the tim^e of Pekah 's death, would leave a child of the age of two years and a 
fraction. But this child that B. C, 739 is two years of age and upward when 
carried, bodily so to speak over into the New Testament and is set down as a hero 
or Savior on its pages, dated 5 B. C. at his rebirth in Luke, and 4 B. C. at his 
rebirth in Matt, verified Matt. 2:1 and Luke 2:7. 

If the child died when its purpose ended as a time piece B. C. 739, when 
King Pekah perished, his oblivion for anything but narrative or fiction until 
he wakes, to birth, again in the New Testament, Matt. 4 B. C. would be seven 
hundred and thirty-five j^ears, a good long rest, and if nature followed the 
narrative, this is exactly what history yields us, setting aside the clandestine 
date of four B. C. at the time of birth in the Book of Matthew. But A. D. 325, 
one hundred and eighteen bishops ; by vote at the first general council of Nicea, 
Asia Minor ; develop what calls for the exclamation from Constantine the Great, 
''What three hundred bishops have ordained is non other than the Seed of the 
ONLY Son of God." 

This was A. D. 325, and A. D. 359, at Rimini, six hundred bishops and a 
prodigious number of priests cancelled the progress made at Nicea, as null and 
void; but A. D. 381, this famous child of metaphor was recalled from oblivion 
to the fore-front as the redeemer of the Jewish God's dominion from Original 
Sin, given parentage and made an object of worship, and is still such an object 
of worship by every professed christian throughout the Jewish God's dominion. 
Thus from the origin of this child as a prophecy, B. C. 742, as instanced by 
the Jewish God, by the mouth of his Prophet, Isaiah, 7:14, B. C. 742, which is 
the date of the original conception in the sign, and B. C. 739, at Pekah's death, 
when the purpose ; in the narrative , of the child is exhausted, and passes off the 
scene at the age of two and a fraction; then comes up again, Matt. 1:18 B. C. 
5, as follows: "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when as his 
mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together she was found 



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with child of the Holy Ghost/' and Matt. 1:22 states, ''now all this was done 
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord (Jewish God) by the 
prophet (Isaiah) saying, behold a virgin shall be With Child and shall bring 
forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, 
is God with us. " 

This verse born to letters B. C. 742, Isaiah 7:14, and set down as verse 
23, B. C. 5, of Matt., Chapter 1, is tortured to carry all with it that the anony- 
mous bishops read into it, a numerical metamorphosis, which leaps the period 
of seven hundred and thirty-seven years, without the slightest ruffle of 
CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE, (siuce it is an act of the Jewish God's church), which 
in order to be believed as history of events, must be totally smothered. 
But the purpose for which this riddle originated was at an end when Ahaz's 
fear vanished, and the King of Israel perished, II Kings, 15:30 B. C. 739. 

Thus the verse of Isa. 7:14, B. C. 742 is dated ahead seven hundred and 
thirty-seven years, and when this child of metaphor receives his finishing stroke 
at the council of Emperor Theodosius, A. D 381, is given parentage, rebirth, 
made an object of worship and redemption, crucified and again passes off the 
scene ; and the acts of council, which yield this avalanch of christian consolation, 
are dated back three hundred and eighty-six years. 

Thus 5^ou have this child dated ahead from A. D. 742, to B. C. 5, and dated 
back from his subsequent rebirth or origin from A. D. 381, to B. C. 5, the age 
when the anonymous bishops lay the scene. The date around which all chris- 
tian thought centers, greatly to the amusement of those who understand the 
trick. But to return, this child of metaphor is by the church crucified and 
used as a sin offering for the disobedience of Adam. The heathen might say, 
you say your man, Adam served his sentence for disobedience; for how long a 
time? nine hundred and twenty-nine years. That should be long enough to 
expiate an offense against the most relentless tyrant; even if his chagrin was 
roused by the virtue in a subject coming into collision with the vices of his 
reign; and that too during the first 3^ear of the subjects life. 

Such conduct merely expresses the relation of a merciless tyrant and slave; 
so that any further surrender to such caprice is expressive of the most abject 
servitude. But for the majestic rule in the interest of tyranny and oppression 
which this Jewish God exhibits in the punishment of virtue admitted to be 
such by himself, in order to vindicate the authority of a command however 
trifling; and to vindicate the absolute necessity of obedience however slavishly 
immoral. But for this lesson for the masses of Christendom the fable of Adam 
or Original Sin had rested in oblivion and King Ahaz's virgin and Son Immanuel 
originally used as a time riddle would never had aroused from its slumber for 
an atonement for Original Sin. But tyranny and oppression whose money 
employed the ready scribe, to dress the throne in imitation of the Gods, who 
themselves, made for the throne the very Gods, and read into them conduct 
that the throne delighted to imitate. And the poor deluded masses for thou- 
sands of years have listened to this application of the word God dished out to 
them by the crape gowned clergy, so that their descendants now in the fourth 
century in America, read right over the red hot coals of t3^ranny and despotism 



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laid down for the instruction of slaves , with an apathy that is simply appalling. 
But 150 Bishops staggered not, neither did they blush to adopt, justify, imitate 
annul, mock and deride the Jewish God's decrees; and worship the precise one 
of a plurality, whose majesty of command could never be wrecked, frustrated, 
thwarted or in any manner interf erred with by the moral universe of the Supreme 
Being, and the Christian as well as his religion to-day not only declares , that 
moralit}^ will not save a man , since such a quality was unknown to their Gods, 
but his religion is a monument in open defiance of the Moral Law , denouncing 
Adam for his obedience to the idea of Resemblance, to the idea of truth, to the 
idea of right, to his sense of obligation, duty and approbation, all of which by the 
Christian Religion is defiantly declared a sin not only in Adam, but in every 
human being , that for fifteen centuries past and for all the untold ages that are 
to come, that have, do now, or shall exist upon this planet. Not one shall 
escape his decimal fraction of Adam's sin, verified Romans, 5:12 by the for- 
m^ula '^ Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, 
so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned" and this " God hath con- 
cluded all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all," and the Scripture 
written by these 150 anonymous Bishops ''hath concluded all under sin that 
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." 
In what? In the right of the throne to punish virtue when used to thwart its 
vice , and in the acknowledgment that virtue is sin , when so used, all of which is 
an implied acknowledgment that vice is the governing rule of the world over 
which the Jewish God presides, and by the adoption of 150 Bishops; precisely 
the same God governs the Christian World, and Adam's virtue is, by its leaders 
scandalized a vice to be atoned for and expiated, and the actual vices of the 
writer who fashions a God for such a purpose and the actual vices of church 
Bishops who make use of, adopt, advocate, mock, imitate and worship such a God 
are not mentioned, and are treated as a matter of course, clearly proving injustice 
to be the rule at large, and right and justice to be the exception, which must be 
expiated; which proves the Christian Religion to be wholly contradictory to the 
Supreme Being for moral rational intelligences , when its tenets are exposed to 
reason. And all those whose integrity of soul have been too weak to withstand 
the assaults , of the most crass despotism inflicted upon the understanding , at the 
hand of the church, and such as are mislead by the New Testament wherein is 
recorded its formulas , and consequently have fallen victims to its caprice, 
and according to its very teaching perish they must upon the sands of supersti- 
tion, consequently all who hang their destiny on Chris's Resurrection, and make 
Christ's Resurrection, depend on Adam's disobedience being a sin. Original Sin, 
a sin unto death for all men, have only falsehood and contradiction for support. 
Which in fact lacked the merit , for the purpose of being a sin at all, which abso- 
lutely nullifies Christ's existence at all, and by the Christian Rule expressed in 
1st Cor. 15:14:15:17:18:21:22 which says "If Christ be not risen then is our 
preaching vain and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false wit- 
nesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom 
he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. " " And if Christ be not raised, 
your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen 



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asleep in Christ are perished. " ''For since by man came death, by man came 
also the resurrection of the dead. " ''For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ 
shall all be made alive. " Now then precisely the same witness, Paul, whom the 
anonymous Bishops use as a mouth piece to formulate the Christian Religion 
which is contained in the " charmed circle" of the fifteen words of 1st Cor. 15:21, 
"For since by man (Adam) came death, by man (Christ) came also the resur- 
rection of the dead, '' which is emphasized by the words "If Christ be not raised 
your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins, then they also which are fallen asleep 
in Christ are perished. " Nothing can be the Christian Religion if this is not it. 

Thus there is nothing more manifest than the fact that the teaching of 
the New Testament is that eternal life of man depends upon Christ's resur- 
rection from the dead, and Christ's resurrection from the dead, depends on 
Adam's disobedience being a sin; and Adam's disobedience being a sin, de- 
pends upon the utter wreck of the Moral Law. 

But if you take the case away from the Jurisdiction of the Jewish God of 
despotism, whose law is vice, whose exception is virtue, which this God pun- 
ishes as he did the virtue of Adam, and protects with seven fold vengeance as he 
did Cain's wickedness, and try it before the bar of the Supreme Being which is 
the Supreme Court of this universe where the principles of equity reign and the 
Moral Law is in operation; then the decisions and actions of one of a plurality 
of Gods, as the Jewish God unmistakably confesses himself to be, will be set 
aside. 

And since to know good and evil, is a condition precedent, to the intelli- 
gent choice, of the good and the rejection, of the evil, it is positively right and 
its exercise is a virtue, totally regardless of the dogma of vicarious sin, called 
Original Sin. When a man at least, in the universe of the Supreme Being does 
wrong, he ascribes the evil to himself, and never to Adam, totally regardless 
of Original Sin. Moral obligation and personal accountability cries aloud that 
we are responsible for our acts. Adam or Eve could not possibly commit sin 
for me to absolve, or for another to absolve in my behalf. 

The Moral Law cannot hold me responsible for another's acts. Evil exists 
for an individual alone, which he freely determines, and such is a mere irrational 
act, perpetrated against one's self or against the behest of right reason. 

Now then, the formulas of Original Sin and redemption, comprised in the 
words, I Cor. 15:22, "For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive" both of which dogmas, are reared by the church by its clandestine per- 
version of the meaning of the words of Gen. 2:17 which state, "But of the tree 
of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die," which threat of death was commuted to 
a life in exile for nine hundred and twenty-nine years thereafter, since Adam 
lived to the age of nine hundred and thirty years. This work by the christian, 
instead of fable, is taken for granted, to be that of the Jewish God. 

But what has the church done? It has made void this God's decree, of 
Adam's exile and crucified, according to agreement, a fraction of the Jewish 
God in unity, in its place; in other words, two penalties, four thousand three 
hundred and eighty-seven years apart, are accepted and used by the church 



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for the same offense, which reduces the entire affair to utter nonsense. Next, 
the dogma of redemption is reared by the church from Isa. 7:14, in which the 
mere words, C Virgin" and her son ''Immanuel" in the original context are 
used as a rhetorical flourish or as landmarks in the passing of time,) are apos- 
tatized by the church into a ''God with us" and the mother of Gods, verified 
Matt. 1:18 to 23, and Luke 1:27. 

But since upon the confession of the Jewish God, arising from the wordg^ 
in Gen. 3:22, which state ''the man (Adam) has become as one of us, to know 
good and evil" without more ado, Adam is expelled from the Garden of Eden 
as a punishment, which yields, by the punishment of virtue, a premium for 
crime, and is a crime, than which no greater can be committed, against the law 
and order, of the Supreme Being of the universe. 

And if Adam's exile is not justifiable in the Jewish God's dominion after 
his admission that Adam became ''as one of us, " meaning the Gods, by his dis- 
obedience, much less is a crucified victim, four thousand three hundred and 
eighty-seven years later, a justifiable sacrifice for the same offense; in the Jewish 
God's dominion: and if irreconcilable in such a dominion, much less in the uni- 
verse of the Supreme Being; and if the human mind had absolutely no other 
criterion whatsoever, with which to distinguish the Supreme Being from a false 
God, but this : the demonstration is sufficient and the mind need look no further 
to confirm its decision. 

Heb. 10:4 states, "that it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats 
should take away sins, "but the virgin born son of King Ahaz is tortured (from 
the legends of fiction, eleven hundred and twenty-three years after it had ex- 
hausted its purpose in the original context), by the church to yield a Savior 
in less time than it takes to tell it. Such a Savior is crucified as is prefigured in 
Psalms 22:16:18, "They pierced my hands and feet and cast lots upon my 
vesture," which they copy John 19:24, who is buried in the heart of the earth 
as prefigured by the words put into the Savior's own mouth by the anonymous 
authors of the New Testament, Matt. 12:40, "For as Jonas was three days 
and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be three days 
and three nights in the heart of the earth. " 

Which in turn is prefigured Jonah, 2:2, "I cried unto the Lord and he heard 
me; out of the belly of Hell, cried I, and thou heardest my voice. " Which in 
turn is prefigured Isa. 14:9, "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet 
thee at thy coming. " 

But the heathen might say, why let these souls of Jonah and Jesus explore 
this region of the Jewish God, unless they were fit subjects for such exploits. 
Which in turn is prefigured in Psalms 16:10, and Acts 2:27, "Thou wilt not 
leave my soul in Hell, neither wilt thou suffer the Holy One to see corruption. " 
But no sooner had this sacrificial victim risen from Hell than " he appeared unto 
the eleven as they sat at meat ; and upbraided them with their unbelief and hard- 
ness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him, after he was 
risen. " And he said unto them for all their unbelief in each other's testimony 
to the truth of the resurrection on the ground where all of these mysteries if 
true, transpired "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every 



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creature (that the Jewish God's judgment and sentence did not absolve Adam's 
disobedience it being a virtue, but the crucifixion of ' God the Son, ' according 
to agreement will absolve it, and) he that belie veth and is baptized shall be 
saved; but he that believe th not shall be damned. " 

And to proceed with redemption from Rom. 10:9 which reads, "If thou 
'shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart 
that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. " 

Some sceptic might ask you what confessing with the mouth the Lord Jesus 
would admit? It would admit that Adam existed. It would admit that his 
disobedience before one year old was a sin, as decided and punished by the 
Jewish God, whose prerogative was totally inadequate to absolve virtue, but 
whose entire wisdom was no shelter against the folly of an attempt. And from 
the fact of crucifixion under the supervision of the church to expiate the same 
offense; such is a positive verification of the maxim that a church or tribe will 
be no more moral or reasonable than its adopted God, verified by the formula, I 
Cor. 15:22, "For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

It would admit on behalf of every man who so confessed, that he himself 
is an active participant, and an accomplice in Adam's disobedience, to the 
Jewish God, and although he absolutely and positively knew, that Adam's 
act conformed, to the decree of the Moral law, and was a virtue in the universe 
of the Supreme Being; yet, to receive the promise, in the dominion of the Jewish 
God, "By faith of Jesus Christ" he would confess it a sin. It would admit 
that the time riddle which had already answered its purpose B. C. 739, by the 
death of the two kings, prefigured B. C. 742, for the comfort of King Ahaz, 
could be legitimately used, second handed, for a purpose; totally repungnant, 
to its use in the original context, eleven hundred and twenty years later; by 
the decree of the church A. D. 381, in a sense in absolute contradiction to the 
intent of the Jewish God, at the shrine of his prophet Isaiah : and the name of the 
Jewish God used to back the perversion, verified Matt. 1:22. 

When the Jewish God was already backing the original context its con- 
tradictory : and that too, from a mere fragment of the words used in the original 
context, as a mere figure of rhetoric for time ; the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 
is reared, for the atonement of Adam's absolute virtue (under the Moral Law,) 
which is punished by the Jewish God as a sin, and this precise sin is confirmed 
by the Christian church and Religion, and redemption for that sin can be 
brought about, under the dominion of the Jewish God, in downright defiance 
and utter nullity of his prerogative as a God, at all, which the crucifixion and 
offering of another sacrifice, for the same imputed offense admits: being a 
downright contradiction of Adam's expulsion from Eden to absolve the same 
sin; and facing the contradiction that the prophecy evoked had by the death 
of Pekah king of Israel exhausted its legitimate purpose over one thousand 
years before. Yet, I admit when I confess this Christ, that it is reasonable 
and not extravagant or illicit, to use this sign over again, and make the Jewish 
God (whom I confess to be the true one) stand as weather vane for both sides of 
a contradiction : in absolute contradiction to its meaning as a figure for time in 
the original context of Isa. 7:14:15:16, and in downright defiance and repugnance 



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to the use of the rhetorical flourish by the Jewish God; by a use of a part; by 
the church Matt. 1 :23 to the overthrow of the meaning of the whole, or by the 
torture of the words ''Virgin and Immanuer' away from their legitimate use 
and meaning in the context, to an apostatized meaning, as the ''Virgin Mary" 
of the church, and God the Son, or "God with us" verified Matt. 1:23, and it 
further admits that the votes of one hundred and fifty bishops will answer to 
fulfill it as well as, or even better: backed by the Jewish God's verse fourteen of 
Isaiah, Chapter seven taken alone, which is meaningless than it was 
fulfilled by the narrative of II Kings, 15:30, and 16:9 backed by the Jewish 
God's prophecy of Isa. 7:14:15:16 which yields the meaning; or could be 
fulfilled by actual eventual history or by the laws of the true events of birth, 
life, crucifixion, death, resurrection and forty days furlough to give an account, 
of the three days vacation in Hell, before the resurrection, and the following 
forty days exploits before ascension to the sky. 

It admits the formula of I Cor. 15:21, which states "for since by man came 
death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead," which no Proselyte of 
the Christian Religion understands in its application or relation to the Moral 
Law, but which words are the imaginary line which bound the charmed circle 
of the Christian Religion. 

It admits that you are responsible for an act of another, which destroys 
freedom and rears predestination. It admits that you understand what you 
absolutely do not understand, and which if you did, you could not entertain, 
or believe for a single instant, and that is, that the Supreme Being requires an 
individual assent to the judicial murder of Christ as an atonement for an act 
of uncompromising virtue. 

Which would positively necessitate that his throne like the Jewish God's 
from a perverted imagination, is reared in the interest of ignorance, error, super- 
stition and vice, which would be the rule of his universe as is depicted by the 
advocates for oppression, and virtue would be the exception to require for- 
giveness. 

So much for the confession of the Lord Jesus Christ with the mouth which 
is the net or trap used by one hundred and fifty bishops of the church as stock- 
holders, and Jesus Christ (with the protection of his God or King against a 
second offense, made later by the church in advance, against the possible first), 
as the narrated foreman, and twelve sh .rk-drivers as decoys to do the drudgery 
and bring the masses to the stockade of perpetual servitude; where their native 
faculties and powers of intuition, are tied to the yard posts of sin and redemp- 
tion; there to flounder, until sheer fatigue, has trimmed them of every vestige 
of moral self-government; and they are left to wither, in the I'pas shade of 
christian superstition, ignorance, fanaticism, and insensible obedience. But 
you might be questioned upon the last part of the formula for redem^ption, 
Rom. 10:9, which states, "And believe in thy heart that God hath raised him 
from the dead, thou shalt be saved" as to what resurrection here referred to 
admits. 

It admits all that you agree to in confessing "Christ with the mouth" 
as before adduced plus the persuasion that your resurrection from the dead. 



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depends upon Christ's resurrection from the dead, and that Christ's resurrec- 
tion from the dead, depends upon whether Adam's act of disobedience was a sin* 
or not, and whether it was a sin in all men as well as in Adam, in the universe 
of the Supreme Being. 

It admits that Adam could sin, before the age of accountability for all 
men, that is Adam could sin against the Jewish God at that age and bind all 
his descendants in the Jewish God's dominion. It admits that Adam's dis- 
obedience which is justified as a virtue under the Moral Law, in the real universe; 
whether fable, fiction, or fact (is a sin according to your faith and belief, in 
your imaginary dominion), when you positively know, that it was not a sin at 
all, in the real world, but on the contrary is enjoined by the Moral Law. 

It admits not only that Christ's resurrection from the dead depends for its 
validity upon Adam's disobedience being a sin, which the Mor il Law, (other 
conditions being normal), makes a virture; but it admits as well that my resur- 
rection from the dead depends for its possibility and validity upon Adam's 
disobedience being a sin, verified I Cor. 15:21:22. 

Since Christ gains his resurrection conditioned on Adam's sin, and I gain 
my resurrection conditioned on Christ's resurrection; therefore, my resurrection 
depends for its validity upon Adam's disobedience being a sin. Verified by the 
formula, I Cor. 15:21, ''For since by man (Adam) came death, by man (Christ) 
came also the resurrection of the dead. " 

But the major premise of the syllogism above is false by I Cor. 15:13:15:16 
and it has been proven that Adam's disobedience was commanded by the Moral 
Law; consequently it is a virtue, and not a sin at all; therefore this resurrection 
for the purpose of absolving sin and eternal life is null and void. 

It is clearly intended that these dogmas, of sin and redemption, shall be 
related to one another, as cause and effect. That is a cause for incidents of 
fiction, is that without which the effect could not be applied, in such a relation. 
So that if by m.an or Adam, death did not come, but on the other hand, the act 
in question was in positive obedience to the command of the Moral Law, con- 
seqeuently Adam's disobedience is a condition of moral life. And since it is a 
condition of life instead of a dogma for death it follows by moral necessity that 
the act of choosing the good and refusing the evil, is knowledge of good and 
EVIL, IN Execution, and is Right, raising obligation or duty and approbation. 
And since Christ's existence at all, as well as resurrection depends absolutely 
on Adam's disobedience being a sin, Original Sin, called here, death, which has 
been absolutely and positively demonstrated a virtue, consequently Christ's 
existence at all, since the purpose of his origin or mission by the church, is 
divested of a reason by the law of contradiction. 

Consequently He Did Not Exist. However, to make assurance doubly sure,, 
if dealers talk amounts to anything, in I Cor. 15:14:17:18, are found the words,. 
''And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain, and your faith is vain; 
ye are yet in your sins; then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ, are 
perished." Summed up I Cor. 15:21:22, "For since by Man came death by 
Man came also the resurrection of the dead; for as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive." And the plan of redemption summed up, 



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Rom. 10:9, reads, ''That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, 
and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou 
shalt be saved." 

Thus it is clear, that the New Testament confirms the Christian Religion, 
which makes Christ's resurrection from the dead: the Condition of Yours, 
Mine and All Men Else, when it says, ''if Christ be not raised, then they that 
are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. " 

But what must happen to this entire avalanch of sophistry if the same 
writer makes Christ's resurrection to depend upon a law of nature of the Supreme 
Being; then the entire fabric falls to absurdity, and that such is the case, see 
I Cor. 15:13:15:16, which states, "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, 
then is Christ not risen. " 

Which positively obliterates all miracle and makes Christ's resurrection 
depend more on yours, mine and all men else: than we are to depend on his, 
which is positively confirmed by the words, "Yea, and we are found false wit- 
nesses of God, because we have testified of God, that he raised up Christ whom 
he raised not up if so be that The Dead: Rise Not" which again makes the 
resurrection of Christ to depend more on yours, mine and all men else or a law 
of nature, than we are to depend on his as a dogma of the church. 

Now then every one of the latter quoted verses, contradict the Christain 
Religion, that makes yours, mine and all men else in the dogma of resurrection, 
expressed I Cor. 15:21, and Rom. 10:9, to depend upon Christ's actual resur- 
rection or a Belief, on Christ's recurrection, which is in positive annihilation 
of the dogma of resurrection and the Christian Religion in that behalf, and 
impeaches the bishops who wrote it as falsifiers, who attempt to father this 
mass of absurdity, contradiction and falsehood on to the tent-maker Paul. 
And to confirm their hypocrisy and double dealing the said bishops by the 
mouth of this Paul, give utterance to the villifying confession, Rom. 3:7, "For 
if the truth of God (meaning the Jewish God) hath more abounded through 
my Lie unto his glory, why yet am I Also judged a sinner. " 

And to relieve the situation are the words, Rom. 11:32 "For God hath 
concluded them all in unbelief (of such nonsense) that he might have mercy 
upon all. " And for the further consolation of the Proselyte of the Jewish God^ 
Christ saith, "He that belie veth not shall be damned. " 

If I were a professed Christian, I should not dare to trust the Jewish God 
either in unity or trinity, for remember he drowned his dominion once, for 
obedience to his own command, but since he makes his inspired writers perjure 
their souls, for his sake, and violate the Moral Law by obeying his villifying 
commands, and then to unload their inquity onto a fictitious tent-maker, 
altogether, makes the clerical branch of his offspring show a very striking resem- 
blance to the Jewish God, the father of Adam and the grandfather of Cain 
himself. Some heathern might say, Why wade through all of the mass of con- 
tradiction and absurdity contained in I Cor. 15:13 to 23, it costs more than 
it comes to, to confess Christ with the mouth, and to believe from such con- 
tradiction that God , or any part of him ; in unity , raised God , or any part of 
him in trinity from the dead, even if it is the condition, in the dominion of the 
Jewish God, of being saved. 



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What can be expected of the Church of the Jewish God in unity or trinity, 
since the Supreme Being and the entire moral universe is thrown over- 
board, to the Whale of Superstition, and its dogmas are set up as the general 
rule, that passes current by the Gods in trinity and their vouchers, the Old and 
New Testaments, (and its Proselytes like Jonah are still crying " Out of the Belly 
of Hell cried I and thou heardst my voice, " but the Jewish God soon put a check 
on his gourd of superstition so ''that he fainted and" was left to perish on the 
sands of burning error), and Virtue is the exception, which must be Twice 
Expiated. Then to heap the additional absurdity on top of that, of believing 
that this God in his unity raised Christ (for an immoral purpose, which is the 
absolution of virtue), bodily from the dead, is adding insult to injury in the 
real universe as much as when Adam's infantile disobedience as the legend goes, 
was expiated by nine hundred and twenty-nine years at hard labor and the 
offense a virtue at that. 

And then as though the quittance was inadequate to the offense or that 
their own God's dealing with Adam was a mere jest, a farce or mockery, the 
bishops of the church take it upon themselves to reopen the case of Adam's 
disobedience, which had long since been expiated and absolved by exile before 
the bar of the Christian God against whom alone, it was an offense, and just 
as though for the purpose, it had possessed the merit of being a sin, which was 
not the truth, before the bar of the Supreme Being. Thus is manifest the folly 
of an attempt to reconcile the conduct of an immoral dominion and its God : with 
the universe of the Supreme Being. But since the act of Adam contains all 
the necessary characteristics of a virtue, as far as disobedience to the com- 
mand for continued ignorance is concerned, in the real universe: and since the 
Christian Religion its founders, and supporters are consigned to the awkward 
predicament, before the bar of the Moral Law, in the universe of the Supreme 
Being when such could only be possible in the imaginary dominion of the Jewish 
God of pronouncing Adam's uncompromising virtue: vice, and of treating 
actual, positive virtue, as and for vice and of furnishing a sin offering for virtue, 
as if it were a vice, all of which has made those implicated, objects of ridicule 
among men, of learning for fifteen centuries. And has consigned the masses 
to the worship, adoration and belief in a counterfeit God. 

Not that the masses are to be shunned, for being victimized, with the tactics 
of one dominion: that is of the Jewish God or Devil: having been carried over by 
the church into the universe of the Supreme Being, for they are only specimens 
that have fallen a prey to this delusive, capricious and debasing error, and for 
mere lack of using their nine faculties and twelve intuitive ideas or powers of 
the soul, the conscious use of which for its governance, is as necessary, as attrac- 
tion is a power for the governance of physical bodies, which faculties and 
powers cannot be too thoroughly developed and disciplined to- wit: the facul- 
ties of sense, conscious and noumenal perception, memory, fancy and imagina- 
tion, conception, judgment and reason. Serious attention to the culture and 
normal use of these faculties, is pure and undefiled religion. 

Then you have the subconscious or conscious use of the twelve intuitive 
ideas, which when evoked, disciplined, and brought into a use, become the 



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standards of knowledge with which to relate concrete thought and act; such 
as time, space, mind, matter, existence, infinity, cause, beauty, number, re- 
semblance, right, and truth. The precise work that the Supreme Being has 
established the faculties and intuitions of the soul to perform is, that they be 
subjected to severe discipline, and drill, and like the power of enumeration 
shall be furnished with ready knowledge; so that they should let nothing, into 
the mind, which cannot pass the scruple of these Infallible Sentinels. Should 
the mind of man be less equipped against falsehood than the body of the animal 
against poison or derangement. But you often hear a Proselyte of the Jewish 
God confess that he never dared to subject his Christian Religion to a critical 
examination, or even to subject it to the test of right or truth, wrong or false- 
hood, involved in its dogmas. But if another persuasion or the dogmas of a 
foreign religion, were offered him for acceptance, every unparalyzed power would 
rise to detect its fallacy, and if reason, reflection and intuition fail, mere force 
of habit as a prepossession will usually ward off the intruder. It is a self- 
evident truth, that any church creed, the Christian Religion or any part of it, 
that contradicts the voice of any one or all of the human faculties, an}^ one or 
all of the infallible intuitive ideas or predicates, of the soul, that such creed or 
Christian Religion is not only false, but is a downright challenge and affront, 
to the human faculties, and intuitions, as well as a downright challenge 
to the Moral Universe of the Supreme Being, which he has established in the 
human soul, for its protection, against desecration: and these infallible 
sentinels or powers of the soul, belong to the human soul, just as positively 
as any handiwork of the Supreme Being belongs to Him. And the fact that 
the Christian Religion contradicts the voice of these infallible sen- 
tinels, IS A VOUCHER FOR ITS SURE DOOM. 

Is any or all known religions of more consequence to a man than his soul, 
and its powers? Not at all. A religion is worth just as much as the moral 
truth upon which it is founded and no more. 

A God is worth just as much as the moral and secular truth (which means 
the integrity and self-consistency) he stands for, and no more. These truths 
for the mind are self-evident, are axiomatic. A Bible is worth just as much as 
the moral truth, separated from all vice and falsehood, that it stands for, and 
no more; and if that truth is mixed with nonsense, with the immoral with the 
obscene, and with the false, its use is unfit for the masses, who are not skilled 
in accurate discrimination sufficiently to unravel such a labyrinth of despotism 
in the guise of religion. And since man is qualified with faculties, and intuitive 
ideas, which are correlates, evolved from the universe, of which he is a part, 
and of which- he has the conscious or subconscious use, there should be nothing 
given the Hospitality of his Powers, for Twenty-four hours together 
Unsubjected to their Severe Scrutiny, only then can a man see, think, 
understand and know rightly; only then will falsehood, by the Truth 
relation, be rectified as promptly and effectually as quantity, is now put to its 
purgation, by the numerical relation; only then will error and mistake be rectified 
as naturally, permanently and effectually by man, as is the case with existences 
less capable of rational power, but more obedient to the laws which regulate 



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their natures. What instinct is to less rational existences, the power of thought, 
(or a use of the faculties supplemented with the conscious use of the intuitive 
ideas, which must artificially develop the power of insight), is to man, and the 
Moral Law of the Supreme Being set up in the human soul, is the infallible guide 
for all processes of moral rational intelligence. But the Christian Religion is 
formulated in open defiance of the Moral Law, of the Suprme Being, as is in- 
stanced by its formula 'Tor as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 
made alive. '' 

Adam's act of virtue punished as sin, in the iiame of one of a plurality of 
Gods has been as it were in the world of fiction, turning in its grave as a martyr 
to right, truth and justice for nearly fifty centuries. But right, truth, obliga- 
tion and merit:'' crushed to earth will rise again. The times have been that 
when the brains were out the man would die and there an end, but now they 
rise again with twenty mortal murders in the crowns and push us from our 
stools. " All the struggle of 150 Bishops to bury this vice (so coveted by 
rulers) of punishing virtue in the name of a God ; and the attempt to bury it with 
dogmas (as the coward always does when his position is met and defeated by 
the Moral Law) of Original Sin, Total depravity, the fall of man, sin unto 
death : instead of meeting the situation squarely and admitting the wrong of 
punishing virtue even though such conduct is ascribed to their pet God, instead 
of making wrong right : it is all the worse for the God ; consigning him to the realm 
of counterfeits. The church in the ranks of vice hopes ere long to smother this 
child of virtue, but when the church buries virtue it has the task on its hands 
of burying an ordinance in the human soul of the Supreme Being. The dis- 
obedience of Adam or any one else to an immoral command delivered in the 
name of an imaginary God or one of a plurality of Gods, is commanded by the 
Moral Law : the obedience of which would have rendered Adam or anyone else in 
the universe of the Supreme Being, an intellectual wreck and a moral outcast, 
which instead of conferring power displays weakness and imbecility. And 
be it known that anj^ race of beings whose insight is sufficient to distinguish 
right from wrong: who would father the perfidious act of punishing virtue as 
was attributed to the Jewish God, on to the Supreme Being, thereby making 
''malicious sport" of the ordinance of the eternal principle of right and setting 
a premium on vice and crime as did the inspired writer for this imaginary Jewish 
God when he added insult to injury by the punishment of virtue in Adam, 
and the double insult by the pretended punishment on the cross of Jesus Christ 
for the same offense to this God. But let mankind forever know that when a 
writer for the purpose of oppression sets up a God ; of any description which 
punishes virtue and protects vice, if you have no other guide to go by : that of itself 
is sufficient warrant of a counterfeit: and that such is a false and an imagi- 
nary description of the Supreme Being concocted by those who would father 
on to him such perfidy, And thus the indis criminating masses have been led 
to think that the guile of punishing virtue ; imputed by these narrators in the 
dominion of the Jewish God as was the case in the fable of Adam, to be the 
work of the Supreme Being which is as impossible to be the case, as it is im- 
possible for me to believe such an absurdity. But let me say right now that 



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clergymen; who are so reckless whether by design, mistake or inadvertance 
as to ascribe to the Supreme Being immoral conduct, immoral commands and 
immoral punishment (just because the word Lord or God has been used in the 
Old and New Testament by writers, whose invincible prowess has connected 
the name God with the most unmentionable perfidy are not excusable. And be it 
forever known that any system called religion in which virtue is subjected to pun- 
ishment as was the case with Adam,or vice is rewarded with special protection as 
was the case with Cain, from the same God, and for lack of scruple as is the case of 
Theodosius' Bishops, who have adopted this precise God, and in further flattery to 
his prowess, have pretended additional sacrifice and atonement for the affront 
suffered by the exposure of his vice to the scrutiny of virtue. And in further 
flattery of his prowess have formulated the Christian Religion into a new testa- 
ment with this precise God at its head in which Adam's virtue is flourished upon 
its pages as an affront to his majesty, and as if the punishment of nine hun- 
dred and twenty-nine years at hard labor was inadequate for the offense of 
obedience to the principle of right and the Moral Law. In preference to dis- 
obedience to an immoral command setting these eternal principles at naught 
and to further cripple the Proselyte, require his assent to an additional penalty 
which is the crucifixion of God the Son, to expiate the same offense : and with 
such weapons of vice as these the Christian Religion is set on foot : and for fifteen 
centuries it has been the stockade in which the human intuitions have floundered 
to their utter impotency. The dogmas of the Christian Religion buried in an 
avalanche of words, the import of which no Proselyte of Christianity has ever 
understood, for as soon as understood by others : that instant its nonsense 
vanishes to the realm of the absurd. Then for the church to use an inferior 
imaginary, self-confessed one of a plurality of inferior imaginary tribal Gods, 
whose imputed instruction to the Israelitish Jew, is that mankind beyond 
their border may be bought and sold as slaves. Thus by the mouth of a God, 
a passport is furnished in the interest of oppression; which, to the indiscrimi- 
nating masses would mean the Supreme Being. But for a Bishop's use, he 
thinks the end, justifies the means, and hopes to escape his intrigue and blas- 
phemous use of the word God; (reinforced and sustained by the use of the per- 
fidious maxim by the mouth of Paul, Roman 3:7, ''For if the truth of God hath 
more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged a 
sinner. " But be it known that any sect in the august presence of the Supreme 
Being that advocates the uncompromising virtue of Adam from the pulpit 
to be a vice, or Original Sin, that advocates the synchronical vice of redemp- 
tion, for that virtue, to be a virtue, or means of grace, coupled with assent, 
and an acceptance, of an advantage conditioned on crucifixion, every vestige 
of which is the work of guile, in order to abase the masses, by branding them 
theoretical criminals, by their accepting advantages which the church proffers 
conditioned thereon, verified Gal. 3:22, ''But the scripture hath concluded all 
under sin (it certainly has concluded all of its believers, that the crucifixion is 
defensible, under sin) that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given 
to them that believe." 

A subterfuge as base in the attempt to establish sin, and to absolve virtue, 



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as it is meaningless for the comprehension of the Proselyte. But should the 
tyrant once more spike six thousand victims to crosses, to hide its infamy 
" Not Erebus itself were dim enough " to blind the Moral Law. The dogmas 
of the Christian Religion are one continuous exhibit of falsehood, their origin 
is from the throne of emperors. And its original Jewish God, is one of a plural- 
ity used by primitive Israelitish savages whose mission by the mouth of their 
God was to reduce all other races of the Supreme Being to serfdom as well as 
to extinnguish the knowledge of good and evil. A God who gloats in the sat- 
isfaction of seeing men perish by flood and fire, and turns sympathy into salt 
(tears) for an expression of compassion; chases a smile at absurdity into a lie 
of denial; gloats on the slavish obedience of an Abraham, (and makes oath for 
an universal blessing as a reward) for Abraham's attempt to murder his own 
son; strikes dumb a Zacharius who requests a reason; visits seven-fold vengeance 
upon the foe that should assault the first murderer. 

Can a m_an of Moral rational thought, ascribe such conduct to the Supreme 
Being? Never! Now then, if man continues to exist in spirit after the dis- 
solution of the body, which is fairly to be inferred from the stupendous fact 
that the Supreme Being has set up the Moral Order of the Universe within the 
Human Soul, and has furnished that soul with Eternal Verities, Latent 
in its Constitution, and chronologically prior to All Experience; but 

LOGICALLY CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH the EXPERIENCE which OCCASIONS, EvOKES 

and CALLS them to the performance of their function. I repeat in view of 
this stupendous power of the human soul subsequent existence, is not only fairly 
to be deduced but previous as well. The sublime exhibit, which is used for 
the consolation of the christian, expressed by the formula I Cor. 15:21, ''For 
since by Man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead, ' ' 
which in order to be possible, or in any manner valid, Adam's disobedience 
must be, in contradiction of the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, the fact that 
Adam's act contradicts a command for ignorance, is no infringement of the 
Moral Law, on the other hand the Moral Law itself contradicts a command 
for ignorance, which makes Adam's act and the Moral Law accord with each 
other. 

But since Adam's disobedience, to an immoral command, necessitates by 
that fact alone, his obedience to the Moral Law, such makes his act a virtue 
under that law. So that the formula above narrated, which states ''By man 
came also the resurrection of the dead" conditioned on Adam's disobedience 
being in contradiction of the Moral Law, falls to the ground as absurd; conse- 
quently any sacrifices, atonements, sin offerings and resurrections for an act 
of virtue, would by that very act instantly be in downright mockery and posi- 
tive overthrow of the entire Moral Universe of the Supreme Being, making 
vice the rule, virtue an intrusion to be expiated, which is an absurdity in the 
realm of the Supreme Being than which there can be no greater. 

But this is just what the Christian Religion has done, is doing, and will do, 
so long as its erroneous dogmas, are preached, and believed, but fortunate for 
the masses, that only about five per cent, of the inhabitants of the earth are 
christian, and still on the wane. 



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The formula, Rom. 10:9, saying, ''That if thou shalt confess with thy 
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him 
from the dead, thou shalt be saved," every whit that this dogma is urged 
upon the Proselyte for, is to make him deliberately acknowledge that the pun- 
ishment of virtue, if such virtue is exercised against a command from authority, 
even when such command is imm.oral or wicked, yet it is justified by your 
assent, and you are willing to share a part of the penalty of such sin as was 
ascribed to Adam, and you deliberately solicit pardon and absolution, for it 
which makes you an advocate of despotism, and which is a tacit admission of 
the utter inability of your own God, to absolve an act which he undertakes, 
which is a denial by yourself of the prerogative of your own God. How in the 
mind of the Supreme Being would a man stand who deliberately seeks pardon 
for virtue? Why, he is simply transported by his instructors to the world, of 
imagination and its God ; furnished him by his Fetich men outside of the actual 
re il universe. What would you think of a parent from whomi a child should seek 
pardon because the night had passed without a theft; either the child had a bad 
parent or it was an unconscionable cleptomaniac. Now then, I would sooner 
admit infidelity to an ignominious creed of a counterfeit God and his vicegerents, 
than to admit that the Supreme Being was bad, because some anonymous 
writer had clandestinely used the word ''God" in connection with the punish- 
ment of virtue, either by the surrender of assent to a sentence for hard labor 
in exile or to yield an unqualified assent to a pictorial crucifixion made real by 
creed and belief of the victim Jesus. But resurrection for the soul is condi- 
tioned on a higher law (than circumvention in flattery or mockery, even of the 
Jewish God who punished Adam for virtue : or to rear from myth, fiction or 
perversion a theological necessity, for a sin offering to forgive that virtue,) which 
higher law is the law of the Supreme Being : Who has set up his throne on prin- 
ciples of integrity : Who could not punish an act of virtue : Who is wise enough 
to know that even an attempt to punish virtue would wreck the entire moral 
and secular order of His universe. So that any m^an whose intuitions pro- 
nounce this truth, self-evident, is under immediate obligation to change his 
VENUE FROM the imaginary realm of the God of despotism : to the actual real 
realm of positive virtue, the instant that he discovers his error. 

If you are going to do any conscious business with the Supreme Being, first, 
you will have to stop worshipping or even fearing imaginary, immoral, primi- 
tive Jevrish Gods, whose conduct in any and every possible m^anner contradicts 
what 3"ou can truthfully, with the active use of a conscious "and moral intelli- 
gence ascribe to the Supreme Being. The v/ords " inspired Bible, " Y\dll not help 
you, neither will the word "God," help you, since there is the punishment of 
virtue which christians have made into a belief or creed v/hich becomes as 
effectual as if actually performed by an entity called God, who addresses him- 
himself in the plural number, who is charged with prohibiting the knowledge 
of good and evil, (v/hose entire domxain is circumscribed by the tribe of Israelitish 
Jews, I Samuel, 4:21:22 and 5:7, Acts 5:31. Do you marvel that such knowl- 
edge if acquired, might disclose good Gods, from evil Gods, after awhile which 
this God or his confessor Moses feared, so hard labor for life would keep Adam's 



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faculties and intuitions sufficiently blunted so that this God's throne at least 
for a while would be exempt from criticism by the moral faculties of man a 
condition of ignorance : so essential to the safety of the thrones of Kings and 
Emperors and their bishop courtiers for whom such Gods are invented to stand 
as examples or a license for whatever is wanted, and by whom such Gods are 
adored and imitated, and the masses of men whose powers for critical discrim- 
ination are unused to meet the skill, of men whose lives are devoted to the inven- 
tion of means to subject their powers to the tyrants caprice; must be content with 
the formula of Paul, ''If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant." The 
formula, I Cor, 15:21, ''For since by man came death by man came also the 
resurrection of the dead;" all of which makes Christ's resurrection depend on 
Adam s disobedience being a sin, and makes my resurrection through Christ 
depend upon Adam's disobedience being a sin. But if Adam's disobedience 
is not a sin, but a virtue, there is no reason for Christ's existence as a sin offering, 
an atonement, Savior and redeemer at all, much less to forgive an act of virtue. 
So that if I expect resurrection from the dead I must look elsewhere than to the 
Christian Religion for it as expressed in 1st Cor. 15:21. But as a condition of 
being saved by the Christian Religion as formulated, Rom. 10:9, I must con- 
fess Christ with the mouth and believe God raised him from the dead, which is 
absolutely meaningless since Adam's disobedience is a virtue. The Christian 
Religion teaches, that by "man came also the resurrection of the dead", veri- 
fied, 1st Cor. 15:21, that is 3^ours, mine and all men else must gain their resur- 
rection from Christ's resurrection. But since Christ's resurrection is condi- 
tioned on Adam's act being a sin against the Jewish God; and since Christ's 
existence at all as well as the Jewish God's existence at all, depends on Adam's 
act being a sin: and unless Adam's act is a sin against the ordinances of the 
Supreme Being, the existence of both Christ and the Jewish God is cancelled. 
But since a command by an inferior God or any God whatever who insists on 
prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil is immoral and disobedience to such 
by the Moral Law of the Supreme Being, would be by implication commanded, 
hence, there is absolutely no use in the entire universe of the Supreme Being, 
for the Israelitish world of the imagination; its God or Savior at all, much less to 
atone for virtue, verified Acts 5:30:31:and I Cor. 15:22.. But those cunning 
bishops have devised a scheme that if Adam's act be found out a virtue as it 
surely is, and Christ's existence and resurrection fall through, on that condi- 
tion, as it certainly must, which absolutely annihilates the Christian Religion, 
and utterly wrecks the dogma of Original Sin and redemption. Then tack back 
and make Christ's resurrection to depend upon a law of Nature, and perad- 
venture make their purpose hold there. But that even, would overthrow the 
necessity, of belief on Christ's resurrection from the dead, as a condition of 
being saved, as expressed, Rom. 10:9. For then belief on resurrection as being 
a law of nature, would give the Proselyte a law in the real universe of the 
Supreme Being, for his belief, rather than the pictorial resurrection of a 
precarious object from the dominion of an imaginary Israelitish God. "But 
if there be no resurrection of the dead, (in such dominion) then is not Christ 
raised." Which proposition takes the entire scheme of resurrection com- 



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pletely out of the hands of the church and consigns it to a law of nature. Again 
''And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also 
vain, yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified 
of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead 
RISE not. " 

Thus at one stroke all the testimony of the Gospels about this Christ's 
resurrection is of no more value than fiction; on the contrary, it is of much 
less value than good fiction, and as for yours, mine, and all men else, if we look 
for resurrection at all, we must look to the ordinances of the Supreme Being 
as exhibited in the nature of the human soul. Nothing can be more clear than 
the fact that these verses teach that Christ's resurrection depends upon Adam's 
disobedience being a sin, I Cor. 15:22 on tfie one hand: and a law of nature on 
the other, I Cor. 15:16. 

Again, in positive contradiction of the dogma of I Cor. 15:16, which states, 
"For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised," and stronger still is verse 
15, which states ''Yea and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have 
testified of God, that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that 
the dead rise not " 

This last sentence is in positive overthrow of the Christian Religion by 
making Christ's resurrection depend upon a law of nature, and not upon a decree 
or dogma of the church or an imaginary world at all, as is expressed by the formula 
I Cor. 15:21:22, "For since by man came death, by man eame also the resur- 
rection of the dead, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive." In these formulas, Christ's resurrection depends on the dogma of 
Adam's act being a sin. 

But on the other hand from the words, "For if the dead rise not, then is 
not Christ raised, and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in 
your sins, then they a' so which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. " 

Such is the Hobby Horse and double shuffle which must carry the Christian 
to eternal life, which is a wager against a contradiction in express terms. Thus 
the very originators of the Christian Keligion, whose babel of contradiction is 
the downful and utter wreck of their fabrication, and Christ's resurrection to 
the overthrow and downfall of the Christian Religion depends on, (if there be 
such a law at all) a general law of nature, as the writers themselves unmis- 
takably in three propositions affirm. 

Why must I believe in my heart Christ arose from the dead, as a condi- 
tion of being saved, even if I already believe in the general principle of resur- 
rection, which the writer affirms to be the case in several of the foregoing prop- 
ositions. Yet, the Christian Religion would compel belief on a particular, 
when the particular by assumption depends on a general law, which the founders 
of the dogmxa assume, from which to deduce the particular. Thus, the authors 
of the Christian Religion would compel its Proselytes against the Laws of 
Thought to accede to a belief in the Particular when the General, if possible 
at all, would involve every particular. Thus those dogmatizers on the ques- 
tion of eternal life, subject their followers dogmatically, (which means with- 
out reason), to make use of a particular instance for proof, when a general law 



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by assumption is made use of by themselves in establishing the particular: as 
though from the product of an assumption on the question of eternal life the 
particular was sufficient for the Proselyte, who must be content with the most 
meagre proof for his chances of eternal life, dished out to him, when a better 
or general law of nature was available. On the other hand, I Cor. 15:21, the 
general law is made to arise from the particular; or which for thought is a 
ease of induction (against any law of sufficient reason presented) from a single 
instance, in the behest of all mankind, which is evidence that it is not so much 
the dogma of resurrection, as it is the confession by the masses that Adam's 
virtue in resisting oppression, is sin, which necessitates a collision between the 
imaginary and real world. 

If Christ's resurrection depends (for its validity, as in the foregoing three 
verses quoted, the writer makes it) upon a universal law of nature; why should 
salvation be staked on a belief in Christ's resurrection from the dead at all, any 
more than the belief in the resurrection of any other man; since the new testa- 
ment instances (as the case of Lazarus are not wanting) where violence to the 
human mind on the question of resurrection, is fully as effectual, so long as you 
believe in the principle of resurrection, that should be of itself enough. 

But the fact that your redemption depends on the belief upon His special 
resurrection is enough to arouse suspicion at once; that his resurrection was 
not genuine, but is a falsehood; since the author in numerous instances, makes 
Christ's resurrection depend upon yours, mine, and all men else. Thus the 
main condition of redemption which is belief, in the miracle of Christ's resur- 
rection, is forsaken of a legitimate reason, which lands it at once into the realm 
of absurdity, and the writer has left the notion by his narrated falsehoods in a 
worse condition than he found it. 

But the Christian Religion as exhibited in Rom. 10:9, to which all good 
christians must surrender their unqualified assent, states, ''If thou shalt con- 
fess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shait believe in thy heart that God hath 
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. " 

To be a dogma of religion, it must contradict a lav/ of nature, and a law 
of thought as well, as it positively does expressed by the formula, I Cor. 15:21 
stating, ''For since by Man came death, by Man cam^e also the resurrection of 
the dead, " This is a dogma. But the words in I Cor. 15:13, stating "If there 
be no resurrection of the dead then is not Christ raised," this for its validity 
depends upon a law of nature and in no manner upon a dogma of faith. 

Which renders altogether useless all the fictitious incidents of Christ's 
resurrection as depicted in the gospels and dogmas of belief of the church, and 
consigns the entire possibility of resurrection to rest upon a law of nature to 
that effect; should there be such a law. But this virtue punishing Jewish God 
whom the founders of the Christian Religion and writers of the New Testa- 
ment have adopted from the legends of Genesis B. C. 4004, who absolutely 
denied eternal life to his man Adam: and placed a flamJng sword between man 
and any aspiration whatsoever of eternal life : so that there is not a shadow of 
hope of eternal life as coming from this one of the Jewish Gods. If you expect 
eternal life you must look elsewhere. That is to the Supreme Being from whence 



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all things derive their origin and not to a mere puppet of the imagination set 
up for a God from whom tyrants derive their ostentious authority by imitating 
licentious conduct read into them for a passport to punish virtue; or disobed- 
ience to their immoral commands. And it may be laid down as a self-evident 
truth; that any phantom of the imagination to which the word God is con- 
nected to give credence and currency or to furnish a passport or license for some 
form of oppression whether in a secular or work of superstition, such is the 
shameless work of guile. Then for 150 Bishops to couch the Christian Religion 
within the charmed circle of fifteen words in which this very art crops out for a 
license to punish virtue whose every letter has cost a million lives in the attempt 
to make permanent the falsehood that it is right to punish virtue, whose every 
word libels the universe of the Supreme Being with the defiant title that vice 
is solemnized as a matter of course and virtue shall crawl for pardon, all of 
which is a blot upon the history of the christian world, which time will not efface. 
These eternal truths are not new they are as old as the Supreme Being but are 
new to all who for the first time behold their light. Thus it is demonstrated 
that the false and malicious lible (of Rom. 5:12 and I Cor. 15:22 fraught with 
the guile of a passport to punish virtue, against all mankind set up by the found- 
ers of the Christian Religion which are the very beings whose signatures were 
omitted to escape the infamy of imposture a Work of Guile upon humanity, 
which the masses are led to believe to be the Work of a God, in their attempt to 
palm off a work of fictions of the imagination as and for the history of men and 
events, then to silence the legitimate criticism of the age date their work back 
nearly four hundred years when all actual contemporaries with the dates on 
its pages have been dead for over three hundred years. The sayings by the 
mouth of Paul are doubtless the work of St. Gregory, St. Jerome and their 
bishops associate contemporaries. Thus it is an absolute conviction that the 
substance of the New Testament and the Christian Religion had its origin at 
the council of Emperor Theodosius the Great, A. D 381, from the fact that 
Emperor Valens, Theodosius' predecessor admitted a million Goths over the 
Danube into the Roman Empire on condition of giving up their arms and of 
joining the new religious sect, whose formal persuasion was baptism alone; 
so that up to A. D. 381, when the dogmas of Original Sin and redemption were 
invented, backed with perverted narrative, and formulated: baptism alone 
was all, that was necessary to become a member of the new sect, which was a 
compromise, between the Roman Pagan and the Jewish Idolater with the Roman 
Pagan in the lead. 

In the face of the fact of baptism, as being the only condition of redemp- 
tion under Valens, Theodosius' predecessor, and the fact that the dogmas of 
the Original Sin of Adam, and redemption in Jesus, had their origin A. D. 381, 
by the bishops of the church in council convoked and the further fact that the 
New Testament, treats baptism, as insignificant, as do the Christians to-day, 
in comparison with the dogmas of Original Sin, and redemption, with which 
the New Testament is saturated from start to finish, is proof positive of the 
time that this book originated, as well as the time of the origin of its dogmas 
by the church. Thus the evidence is good that the New Testament was written 



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after its dogmas of Original Sin and redemption in Jesus were formulated 
and voted into use, by the church A. D. 381, and are contained on its pages 
from Matthew to Revelation, and before A. D. 431, when the Virgin 
Mary was made by vote, the mother of God the Father, which no where 
appears on its pages, thus regardless of the fictitious dates upon the pages 
of the New Testament, the evidence is over whelming, that its origin 
was not earlier than A. D. 381, and its dogmas were unknown previous 
to that time, either in theory or practice, and baptism comprised 
all that constituted redemption under Emperor Valens, A. D. 378, which 
is corroborated and verified by the historic events, that a million visi-Goths 
were admitted over the River Danube into the Roman Empire on conditions 
of the surrender of their arms and submission to baptism. Thus the evidence 
is sufficient that the New Testament was written by such men as St. Augustine 
born A. D. 354, and died A. D. 430, and his coadjutors among whom were St. 
John Chrysostom, St. Ambrose, St. Martin, St. Gregory and St. Jerome; and 
not at all by any character which the anonymous bishops use to carry out the 
imaginary incidents of its fiction. 

And the said bishops of the church flattered their Emperor in that they 
could furnish him a God from the legends of antiquity who deigned not to 
punish virtue in behest of his commands and the throne was so delighted with 
this one of a plurality of imaginary tribal Gods whose moral turpitude enabled 
him to punish virtue in Adam and protect vice in Cain with seven-fold venge- 
ance, and Emperor Theodosius was so delighted (with such a precedent and 
model as a Deifie license to punish virtue) that this God and his undaunted 
prowess in the punishment of virtue (which was in open defiance of the Supreme 
Being and the moral order of his universe whose decrees Theodosius and his 
council were determined to ignore :) so that the said Emperor at once with the aid 
of his Bishops A. D. 381 in council convoked created the Christian Religion 
with this one of a plurality of Gods as its God : and the said bishops afterward 
write the New Testament with this Jewish God as its God: in which the dis- 
obedience of Adam is execrated, as an affront to the imperial majesty of his 
throne, and as a mark of fealty and allegience to his majesty the said bishops ; 
cause: the affront of Adam in matching this God's vice, with human virtue, to be 
treated as a sin in Adam infinitely, divisible and fractional in all men born or 
to be born throughout the earth, together with an unconditional surrender 
of all the rights of the masses, in the Supreme Being to this Jewish God and his 
dominion, all the rights of man in the Moral Law, truth, justice and right. 
Who by their inexorable prowess formulated the propositions, ''For 
God hath concluded all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. '' And 
Gal. 3:22, ''The scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by 
faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. " And Mark 16:16, 
"He that believeth not shall be damned. " The admission that Adam's virtue 
is a sin would of itself for moral intelligence before the bar of the Supreme Being 
become a sin; so likewise must a pretended faith or belief that a sin offering of a 
Jesus Christ whether crucified in effigy, pantomime or narrative alone for Adam's 
virtue become a sin in itself, before the bar of the Supreme Being as much as 



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was Adam's exile. Why? simply because a dogma of Original Sin and salva- 
tion has been intruded falsely and artificially into the working order of the 
Supreme Being. Not only contradicting that order, but in open defiance chal- 
lenges and demands the surrender of that order, to the claims of the most con- 
summate caprice of the throne: whose law for the masses is the most slavish 
obedience to its immoral commands : and the punishment of any virtue that 
stands in the way. Thus the dogmas of Original Sin and redemption expressed 
by the words that the ''scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise 
by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe, '' which is unlimited 
despotism : and redemption reared on the fragment of Isa, 7:14, which is void 
of meaning taken alone, but is tortured to yield the dogma ''if thou shalt con- 
fess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God 
hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved,'' which is redemption for 
a sin already absolved and in contradiction of Isa. 7:14. All of which in church 
parlance means that the Proselyte heartily concurs in the punishment of virtue 
which is in open defiance and positive antagonism of the decrees, and moral 
order of the Supreme Being, which is against and in contradiction of the moral 
order of his universe as displayed and set up in the human soul, which is a per- 
petual proof and demonstration of the eternal and never dying nature of the 
human soul, the aspiration of which, allegience to this counterfeit God would 
crush; and the unconditional surrender of every principle of the human soul 
to this false and malicious Jewish God whose throne, unlike a molten image 
which is as harmless as a symbol or figure in mathematics, to hold the thought 
definitely in the application of number for any purpose in which a numerical 
relation is involved. Why the American flag could be treated as an idol and 
worshipped as a fetich, but that does no harm to what it stands for, but simply 
shows the grade of understanding in the worshipper. But when you set up an 
imaginary God with all the vices of tyranny and oppression which are of neces- 
sity in open defiance to the Supreme Being, which are of necessity in open defi- 
ance of the divine powers in man, then you have the God of the Jew and Moham- 
medan as well as the original God in unity of the Christian Religion by adop- 
tion; whose terms of allegiance are the unexceptional surrender, of the legitimate 
use of the faculties and intuitive ideas or truths, which are the only legitimate 
means of protection, preservation and perfection of the human soul. In the 
New Testament over which this Jewish God presides Adam's act of virtue 
in SUPPORT OF THE MoRAL Law, (in downright flattery of this God for his pun- 
ishment of said virtue,) is treated with scorn and utter contempt. And in 
flattery of this God Adam's act of virtue is treated as sin. Original Sin, sin to 
the Spiritual death of all men for the atonement of which is born a son, half 
man and half God, whom the said bishops interpret from the word " Emmanuel " 
to be "God with us," whom these Bishops sacrifice as a sin offering to the 
Jewish God in unity and in additional flattery to his pride and prowess as well 
as in contempt and utter mockery of his judgment decree and sentence in the 
disposal of Adam's case. An additional atonement must expiate Adam's sin. 
And for this purpose they revive a time prophecy which this same God through 
the mouth of Isiah B. C. 742 delivered for the comfort of King Ahaz to the end 



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that the two Kings Rezin and Pika should perish or the land which they ruled 
should be forsaken them; in less time than it takes to grow a child from its 
conception to distinguish good from evil or to say ^'my father or my mother:" 
the land so prophecied was captured B. C. 740 by the King of Assyria, Rezin 
was slain B. C. 740 and Pika also, B. C. 739. The sign being given B. C. 742 
^nd the last of the two Kings referred to being slain B. C. 739 the time from the 
prophecy to its fulfillment including prenatal existence and subsequent growth 
might yield a child as dates were used from one year old to three, thus the sign 
had yielded its function as a time relation and was at an end. But the unbound- 
ed prowess of the 150 Bishops who gave to the Christian world its God the 
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost as well as religion; dig up for 
their purpose the time riddle of King Ahaz which was cancelled absolutely B. C. 
739, and in the year A. D. 381 by act of council, torture this same sign which they 
copy Matthew 1:23 into the double function of yielding for their purpose an 
expiatory atonement for Original Sin designated the Lord and Savior Jesus 
Christ. Thus this sign delivered for the comfort of King Ahaz as a figure of 
rhetoric for the time to elapse before his fear should vanish by the death of his 
foes Rezin and Pika who both had laid siege to Jerusalem, and both of whom 
were slain, Rezin B. C. 740 and Pika B. C. 739 and the sign should be at an end. 
Yet from the mere words used as a figure of rhetoric or a rhetorical flourish for 
time, 150 ordained Bishops A. D. 381 torture mere words out of their meaning 
in the context into the yielding of a sin offering for Adam's uncompromising 
virtue. It is not every sign that could be worked to yield products of so diverse 
a nature. A period of time set apart for the termination of fear ending abso- 
lutely B. C. 739, and eleven hundred and twenty years later or A. D. 381 
a Virgin born son which should save his people from Adam's sin, which is a 
positive admission that their own God was helpless to absolve the sin by Adam's 
exile, verified Matt. 1:21 and Acts 5:31. Mark well the significance, Syria and 
Israel had laid siege to Jerusalem, of Judah, Isaiah's ''Lord beheld that King 
Ahaz was worried, who was then King of Judah, and a worshipper of Baalim, 
one of a plurality of Gods the same as was Adam's and Isaiah's. And Isaiah 
told Ahaz to be quiet and fear not. ''Thus saith the Lord God it shall not 
stand, neither shall it come to pass. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not 
be established, moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz saying, ask thee a 
sign of the Lord that God, ask it either in the depth or height above, " but Ahaz 
not willing to show any partiality among the several Gods he was then in allegi- 
ence to, by sanctioning signs from other inferior Gods than Baalim, said, "I 
will not ask a sign, neither will I tempt the Lord, and he said (that is the writer 
said,) "hear ye now, Oh, house of David. Is it a small thing for you to weary 
men. But will ye weary my God also. Therefore the Lord himself shall give 
you a sign. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his 
name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall be eat that he may know to refuse 
the evil and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the 
evil and choose the good the land that thou abhorest shall be forsaken of both 
her Kings." Now put this conundrum together, the period of gestation, the 
naming,'weaned or fed butter and honey. " But before the child knows to refuse 



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the evil and choose the good the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both 
her Kings, " that is the land Syria and Israel. Isaiah 8:4 B. C. 742 tells who is 
going to subdue Syria and Israel and that is the King of Assyria as follows, ''And 
I took unto me faithful witnesses to record Uriah the priest, and Zechariah 
and I went in unto the prophetess and she conceived and bear a son for before the 
child shall have knowledge to cry my father and my mother the riches of Dam- 
ascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the King of Assyria" 
B. C. 740 2nd Kings 16:9, ''For the King of Assyria went up against Damacus 
and took it and carried the people of it captive to Kir and slew Rezin. " B. C. 
739, 2nd Kings 15:30, "In the days of Pekah, King of Israel, came the King 
of Assyria and took Ijon and Abel-beth, Maachah and Jonah and Kedish and 
Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali and carried them cap- 
tive to Assyria. And Hoshea the son of Elah, made a conspiracy against Pekah the 
son of Remaliah and smote him, and slew him, B. C. 739. " Thus the pictorial 
son of the Virgin or prophetess if tortured to yield the concrete, could not have 
been under one or over three years old when the last King perished. Some 
might ask why dwell on this time riddle of King Ahaz, it is of no consequence. 
It shows that the Savior Jesus Christ has his origin from a sign that has in the 
original contex reference only to a period of time, that shall elapse before an 
event, which are as unlike as the "God with us" of Matt. 1:23 and bed time, or 
when Rezin and Pekah were put to sleep; the mere figures that the phrophet 
uses as incidents of rhetoric to yield a time relation. But which 150 Bishops 
jump on to, and torture the mere figures thus used for rhetorical flourish, to 
yield a sin offering to atone for the sin in all men, as participants in Adam's 
disobedience which for the purpose lacked the merit of being a sin at all, but 
by the Moral Law was a virtue, that is the sin was so much a virtue, that their 
own God was powerless to absolve it, so God with us is sacrificed for the purpose 
if peradventure his atonement might absolve it. This is the condition of being 
saved in the Christian Religion as expressed by the formula, Romans 10:9 by 
the words " If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe 
in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved. " If 
the resurrection of this Lord Jesus depends on a law of nature by which you and 
I and all men else must if at all be raised and you believe in the general principle 
of resurrection would there be any sense in saying that unless I single out one 
and belieA^'e in his resurrection I could not be saved, or if I single out one and 
believe that he rose from the dead I should be saved; as though the general 
principle of resurrection if valid, did not include all who come under that prin- 
ciple. As if the axiomatic truth that the whole includes all its parts, could be 
treated with contempt or was not strong enough to make sure of the resurrec- 
tion of the Lord Jesus and that his resurrection must be treated as a separate 
faith in order to make resurrection possible. As if the human mind when 
master of a principle would set that aside and stake its eternal destiny on the 
precarious incidents of fiction which by the miraculous processes of theology 
or the apostatization of mere words sealed as inspired could be changed to men, 
Gods or events at the will of a sycophant. But does such circumvention make 
strong the position of the false, oris it the very lens that discovers its vacuity. 



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The very witness that states the formula that ''if thou shalt confess the Lord 
Jesus with thy mouth and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him 
from the dead thou shalt be saved." Gives utterance 1st Cor. 15:3:4:5:6 to 
the words. ''Christ died for our sins according to the scripture he was buried 
and rose again the third daj^ according to the scripture and that he was seen 
of Cephas, then of the twelve, after that he was seen of above five hundred 
brethren at once. After that he was seen of James then of all the apostles and 
last of all he was seen of me. " Under what circumstances is this witnesses 
testimony, verified; the description is, that this Paul was as blind as a bat, when 
he saw Jesus Acts 9:9 "he was three days without sight neither did eat nor 
drink. " During which time by the doctrine of Clarvoyance of which accord- 
ing to the narrative this Paul was a victim ' 'and the disciple Ananias of Dam- 
ascus putting his hands on him said Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus that 
appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest hath sent m.e that thou mightest 
receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost and immediatel}^ there fell 
from his eyes as it had been scales and he received his sight forthwith and arose 
and was baptized. " And last of all he was seen of me also as of one born 
out of due time. " 

How lucid, this mouth piece of one hundred and fifty bishops gives an 
account of his sight of Jesus. "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from 
the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead. "^ 
But the Christian Religion is compassed within the charmed circle of the fifteen 
words. "For since by man (meaning Adam) came death by man (meaning 
Christ) came also the resurrection of the dead. '^ Supplemented with the dogma 
"For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " Can any 
man fail now to see what a dogma is as distinguished from a law of nature. 
These cunning Bishops knew that if resurrection is allowed to stand a law of 
nature, belief on Christ's resurrection must be even less significant than belief 
on the general principle of resurrection so by 1st Cor. 15:21, they settle down 
on the dogmas furnished by themselves ; for the simple minded : for the Christian 
Religion. Formulated "for since by man came death by man came also the 
resurrection of the dead," but since resurrection is treated I Cor. 15:16:22 as 
both a law of nature and a dogma its knavery and double dealing is unmasked 
and this double shuffle from a law of nature to a dogma of Adam's sin shows the 
absurdity of salvation, Romans 10:9, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth 
the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead 
thou shalt be saved. " A formula purporting to have arisen a year later than 
the aforesaid law and dogma which cancil each other by the law of contra- 
diction. I have shown that belief of Christ's resurrection can not make resur- 
rection stronger than belief on a universal principle. In fact it would weaken 
it to make the belief on the particular (as tending to the miraculous ) superior ta 
belief on the general, (or a law of nature) , but here is laid open the stupenduous 
design of 150 Bishops if they (that is the m.asses) confess Christ and believe 
that he rose from the dead. The}^ admit Adam's disobedience to be a sin 
which every one knows by its sanction from the Moral Law is a virtue. But 
despotism would have it generally understood that rulers have a divine right 



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to punish virtue; they admit Adam's obedience to his intuition of right is sin 
in positive defiance of conscience and knowledge of the right to the contrary. 
They admit that disobedience to a base and immoral command is sin, when they 
know it to be a virtue. The}^ admit that to punish virtue which puts a premium 
on crime, is a virtue, when they know it to be a sin, that is to punish virtue 
overthrows the entire moral universe of the Supreme Being, solemnizing vice by 
its unrestrained prevalence and corrupting virtue by the infliction of punish- 
ment upon it, as though it was an intruder into the domain of its opposite. So 
that this provincial Israelitish God whose rule is vice, and exception virtue, 
whose sincere worship comes only from Kings and despots and those incapable 
of a knowledge of equal rights, who adore, admire and imitate his vices, v>^hich 
holds a superior dignity in their thought and being than does the Supreme Being 
of the universe whose moral decrees are positively ignored, yet whose govern- 
ment is perfect and whose moral integrity is unexceptional. 

It is not to be wondered at that primitive man, even after the use of letters 
should not be able to distinguish the true from the false, since the intelligent 
cause of the universe has for ages been mistaken for a mere product of the imagi- 
nation. 

The Supreme Being is an entity, which the reason infers from a universe of 
effects, their cause, or Supreme Being. The imagination can assist with sym- 
bols and complete with the use of reason the science of number. 

The imagination can be assisted with images hued from stone, or molten 
from iron, brass, or other metal, and all this is the method that priests, both 
employed and ridiculed in their guidance of primitive races. But when the 
savage had passed from a mere objective symbol to a God of the imagination 
compelling the masses to adore for a God such a being as should be a license or 
passport for their rulers caprice you have the God of the Israelitish Jew the 
Mohammedan and Christian in unity and trinity. But the symbol or image is 
a more crude and less dangerous form of adoration, than that of a capricious 
imaginary God, for an image could at best, only become a representative of 
something else, and the something else, would naturally be the Supreme Being, 
unless attributed with immorality and sin, as is likely to be the case with imagi- 
nary Gods, whose natures are fashioned according to the degree of progress 
existing at the time his measure is taken. 

Now then an image that stands as representative of the Supreme Being, 
unless by narrative or otherwise the entity back of the image is blasphemed 
with obvious immorality and imperfection, the fact that the Supreme Being is 
or is not what the image stands for. No man has the right to challenge. Never- 
theless, just as sure as the figure four, may stand for four oxen, four sheep or 
four doves, as the power of thought may determine. 

So sure may an image stand as a symbol for the true deity, and so long as it 
is considered a mere symbol, it is as harmless in directing a wayward attention, 
as a figure, which may represent objects however numerous, but it must be 
admitted then, that there is liability to transfer the means to the end, which 
moral atrophy, and inertia, will bring to pass. Now this form of worship, 
that is the worship of images, by the Jewish legends, has been very well dis- 



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tinguished from other forms of adoration, and has been particularly branded as 
sinful, which has served as a pack horse, upon which less eligible or less reason- 
able objects of worship have found their way into prevailing use. 

For instance, we have the Supreme Being, next idols, that are to the 
Supreme Being, as the figure four is; to so many tangible or intangible objects 
of thought, all of which are as harmless in the one case as the other, when the 
means is not tortured into being an end. Next is a product of the imagina- 
tion, which unless directed, by the Moral Law and the reason, is the most dan- 
gerous of all, to control in the field of caprice, passion and despotism. 

The principal reason for this, is that the characters of imaginary Gods, are 
read into them from the designs of their makers; an imaginary God such as pun- 
ished Adam's act of virtue, because it was achieved in the face of an immoral 
command, which was issued on the part of this God, at the expense of perpetual 
human ignorance, and a God's annihilating self-reproach. Also the recorded 
command by the writer of this God, to a lying spirit to entice Ahab to his bodily 
death at Rammoth, Gilead, which is a total overthrow of the Moral Law and a 
contradiction of natural law, all of which is at best a product of the imagination, 
furnished with such qualities as may be imitated by his annointed rulers. 

A dream of conspiracy inspired by this Tribal imaginary Israelitish God, in 
which a lying spirit and the said God and four hundred lying prophets all join 
in a conspiracy for the bodily death of King Ahab. The story is Ahab, King 
of Israel requested Jehosephat, King of Judah to join him in the capture of 
Rammoth-Gilead, to whom he replied, '' Inquire I pray thee at the word of the 
Lord, to-day. Therefore, King Ahab gathered four hundred prophets and they 
said go up for God will deliver it into the King's hands. (Jehosephat not sat- 
isfied with the decision of the Israelitish God's prophets, asked for another 
prophet). Ahab spake of Micaiah, who always prophecieth evil unto him. 
Jehosephat said, Let not the King say so. Then Micaiah began saying, I did 
see all Israel scattered upon the mountains as sheep that have no shepherd; 
and the Lord said, these have no master, and Ahab said to the King of Judah, 
2 Cor. 18:16:17, did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, 
but evil. The Lord sitting upon his throne, said, who shall entice Ahab, King 
of Israel that he may go up and fall at Rammoth-Gilead? Verified I Kings, 
22:21:22:23, and II Cor. 18:20:21. Then there came out a spirit and stood 
before the Lord and said, I will entice him and the Lord said unto him where- 
with; and he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his 
prophets and the Lord said. Thou shalt entice him and thou shalt also prevail, 
go out and do even so. Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit 
in the mouth of these thy prophets and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee, 
II Cor. 18:28:33:34, the King of Isreal and the King of Judah went up to Ram- 
moth-Gilead and a certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the King of 
Israel between the joints of the harness and about the time of the sun going 
down he died. " This is the kind of a business in which imaginary Gods are 
employed, which are reared from the dreams and visions of his prophet. Is 
this the God and heaven, from this God's inspired penman that the Christian is 
hoping to achieve. Is any man so lost to sense, reason, or decency, as to think 



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that the Supreme Being had anything whatever to do with this lying spirit 
or with inspiring the writer with the infamy of mixing him up with the 400 
lying prophets that enticed King Ahab to his death. If this narration could, 
in any manner, be attached to the moral defalcation of the Supreme Being the 
eternal foundation of his moral world would instantly collapse and be forever 
at an end and man left a mere puppet of forces beyond all sympathy or Deific 
control. The moral and secular integrity of the Supreme Being is the only 
possible assurance that there is for law, order or safety in any realm of existence 
at all. Destroy this in your thought and moral rational life is a chimera, a 
phantasm, a game of chance. But the dogmas of Original Sin and redemption 
are not only false in themselves but their advocates would if possible, infect 
the entire world with slavish obedience to oppression and caprice, thus the 
imaginary God, which is offered to, and believed in by, the masses is one whose 
first recorded act touching the moral soul of man is basely immoral and irrational. 
How so? Why, this God prohibited the knowledge of good and evil, to which 
a man must relate his thought, for a moral and rational choice at all, and this 
Jewish God punishes Adam for making use of it, and drowns his world because 
Adam's descendants obey the command. Mark well the character of this God 
for government. He prohibits the knowledge of good and evil accompanied 
with the threat of death, that means he forbids man on pain of death the right 
that thought and act for correction, shall have the advantage of a knowledge 
of good and evil, that is to distinguish good from evil in order to intelligently 
choose the good and refuse the evil. Adam, according to the narrative acquires 
the knowledge and obeys the moral law of the Supreme Being in relating and 
applying his thought and act to such knowledge in order to choose the good and 
reject the evil and his act is a virtue under the Moral Law. But this inferior 
Jewish God which issues the immoral command according to the infallible in- 
spiration of the narrator punishes Adam for disobedience. But this same God 
or some other of the Jewish Hierarchy of Gods drowns the world and lays waste 
to its cities by fire, for obedience to this precise command, thus this God punishes 
Adam for disobedience to his immoral command and drowns the world for 
obedience to precisely the same command; and la3^s waste Sodom and Gomor- 
rah by fire and brimstone for obedience to precise^ the same command. ' ' What 
shall we say then is there unrighteousness with this (Jewish) God? because he 
hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will, he hardeneth. 
Thou wilt say then unto me why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted 
his will (has any man so little sense or reason as to accept such baseness as 
this for his God.) Nay, but Oh, man, who art thou that repliest against this 
(tyrant God) shall the thing formed say to (this false God who is taken by the mas- 
ses as and for the Supreme) that, which formed it why hast thou made me thus, 
hath not the potter power over the clay — the analogy is good the masses descended 
fromthe m.ud made Adam were always classed as clay — of the same lump to make 
one vessel unto honor and an other to dishonor. " Any man that fails to discern 
the perfect wreck of the moral universe of the Supreme Being and the utter 
mockery of personal accountability and free moral agency set up in the human 
soul from the fatal doctrine expressed by the words ''hath not the potter power 



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over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto 
dishonor. " Any man that is so blind that he cannot discover the utter wreck 
of his every power for self determination by the belief of such nonsense is 
beyond all hope of recovery. Thus, everything is wrecked but barbarous 
servility, authority and oppression. ''Hath not the potter power over the clay 
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor. '^ 
Ilom.ans 14:18:20:21, this is the precise imaginary God for the use of tyranny 
and despotism which is adopted by the one hundred and fifty Bishops who gave 
to the masses the Christian Religion for their perpetual serfdom. Is there 
anything in the universe of nature, or in the moral universe of the Supreme Being, 
as set up in the human soul, that finds a response to this conduct of the most 
base object of self-reproach conceivable by the human mind, set up by the 
tyrant for the adoration and imitation of the throne and for the insensible fear 
and obedience of the masses. It is so ordained by the Supreme Being that the 
eternal verities of the human soul shall not be available by any human being. 
Who is not capable of using them in connection with reason, ''only so far as 
there is. intelligence is there a Moral Law at all. " For instance, the belief 
stated by the formula saying Romans, 10:9, 'If thou shalt confess with thy 
mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him 
from the dead thou shalt be saved. " Now then this is the premium you pay 
and who takes the risk? this Jewish God? No. His church? No. The church 
requires the belief, you believe and pay : and the church gives you j'-our policy 
with the lightning clause in it. 

Rom. 11:32:33, states, "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief 
that he might have mercy upon all. Oh the depth of the riches, both of the 
wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his 
ways past finding out. " Any man that will pay for having his eyes peppered, 
and put out, with such nonsense is positively unaccountable. 

Thus this Jewish God in unity, to exercise his beatitudes, of mercy and 
pre(iestination, hath concluded all in unbelief, but God the son said, Mark, 
16:14:15:16, "unto the eleven, while they sat at meat, "go preach, he that be- 
lie veth and is baptized, shall be saved,but he that belie veth not shall be damned. " 

And evidence of the genuineness of the belief, Mark, 16:17, "And 
these signs shall follow them that believe in m^y name; they shall cast out devils, 
they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they 
drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. (What animal was ever known 
to have so little care for the well being of its offspring, as to invite it to eat or 
drink poison, yet the human religious bigot, offers his offspring poison, and false- 
hood as well) they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. " 

And Heb. 10:12:13, "But this man after he had oft"ered one sacrifice for 
sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God, (could one God be seated beside 
another God and each at the same time merge in the other) from henceforth 
expecting till his enemies be m^ade his footstool. " And Gal. 3:22. "But the scrip- 
ture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ 
might be given to them that believe." 

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heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." ''But if 
Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain" — and if Adam's disobedience is not 
a sin, Christ is not risen, verified I Cor. 15:21:22. I should hate to acknowl- 
edge so sure a truth, that Christendom has, for fifteen centuries, preached the 
vanity, that all fallen asleep in Christ, are perished, unless his bodily resurrec- 
tion is, an historic event, conditioned on Adam's act, though an offense against 
the Jewish God or any other devil; yet is a positive virtue, under the domain of 
the Supreme Being. So that the kind of a man you are depends altogether 
upon which shrine you yield your allegiance. 

And the church gives you your policy, with the lightning clause in it, 
"For since by man came death, by m^an came also the resurrection of the dead. " 
Here the christian is consoled with the dogma of the church that his resur- 
rection depends on Christ's resurrection, and Christ's resurrection depends on 
Adam's disobedience being a sin. Original Sin, Sin unto death, according to 
I Cor. 15:21:22, and Adam's disobedience being a sin, depends upon the posi- 
tive nullification of the Moral Law, which is the very ultimate of .absurdity. 
But if Adam's disobedience is a virtue, the phrase "For as in Adam all die," 
as well as the phrase, "For since by man came death" is false, and if Original 
Sin is false, original redemption for that sin is no less a falsehood, and if original 
redemption is a falsehood, the sacrifice. Savior, and object of atonement or 
redemption on which it depends is a falsehood, that is, it is divested of a reason 
or mission for existence that is, it did not exist in the capacity enunciated at all. 

Why not? Why the supposition by all christians is, that Jesus Christ 
is in the service of the Supreme Being, whereas on the contrary, his entire 
mission, is confined to the region or dominion of the Jewish God in unity, but 
in trinity would be God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, 
which the church pretends to its Proselytes is the Supreme Being; but which 
is no more the Supreme Being, than anyone other of the score or more of Jewish 
Gods, used as objects of v/orships in the Holy Scriptures. But the bishops of 
the church have staked the entire existence and mission of "God the Son" 
upon Adam's disobedience (being a sin in the universe of the Supreme Being,) 
and if Adam's act in that universe is a positive virtue as it has turned out to be, 
as an ethical act under the Moral Law, God the Son is a non-entity : as are his 
partners. But Gods are employed by writers of mythology and fiction by the 
score, and every grade of crime and immorality is ascribed to them; or read 
into them as a pack-horse passport or license for human meanness, and more 
so in respect to the Jewish God than the rest, verified I Samuel, 4:8. 

But the Supreme Being not known by those dabblers in mythology, is free 
from such corruption, for example; who and what are Gods in the Holy Scrip- 
tures. Ex. 7:1, B. C. 1491, "And the Lord said unto Moses, see I have made 
thee a God, to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Ex. 
4:16, "He shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead 
of a God. But Isa. 43:10, B. C. 712, states, "Before me there was no God 
formed, neither shall there be after me, but Moses was used as a God, 779 years, 
before the utterance narrated: and the word "Imm_anuel" was by the church 
made a "God with us," 1872 years after the utterance narrated, verified Ex. 
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This Bible God which the church under Theodosius interpreted from the 
word '^Immanuer' given a father and a mother by act of council A. D. 381, and 
which is confirmed, Matt. 2:11, showing where the acts of council are elaborated 
into a drama that worship was accorded him during his first year: and thus a 
God is turned out by the votes of one hundred and fifty Bishops to whom 
Christendom feels no remorse of conscience in confessing or believing to be the 
condition of resurrection from the dead as well as a second hand expiation for 
Adam's affense in spite of Isaiah, 43:11, saying, I am the Lord and besides me 
there is no Savior. But another God is reared in downright imitation of Egyptian 
and Syrian idolatry, Ex. 25:18:10. ''And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. 
Let them make me a sanctuary and they shall make an ark and thou shalt put 
a mercy seat above upon the ark and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony 
that I shall give thee and there I will meet thee and I will commune with thee 
from above the mercy seat, from between the two Cherubims which are upon 
the ark of the testimony of all things which I will give thee in commandment 
unto the children of Israel. (If this ark does not cover all of the essential charac- 
teristics of an object for Idolatry the mistake is admitted.) And Moses was 
commanded to make an ointment compounded after the art of the Apothe- 
cary and whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth 
any of it upon a stranger shall even be cut off from his people, (that is, put to 
death. What sublimity from the inspiration of this Jewish God? Ex. 30:38,) 
and Moses was commanded to make a perfume and whosoever shall make like 
unto that to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. (Ointment and 
perfume and death to infringe upon the manufacture,) and there I will meet thee 
and have communion with thee (if this is not good authority that the Jewish 
God is having Idolatry read into him words are no sure guide) from above 
the mercy seat from between the two cherubims, which are upon the ark of the 
testimony, " of ointment and perfume and golden mice, I Samuel, 6:5, ''Ye 
shall make images of your (five golden) emerods and images of your (five golden 
mice "for a trespass offering. This ark that came drawn by two mJlch cows into 
the field of Joshua a Bethshemite Num.4 :20," But they shall not go in to see (there 
arises the mystery and fear for the masses) when the holy things are covered, 
lest they die." 2nd Saml. 6:6:7, "Uzza put forth his hand to the ark of God 
and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it (a little) and the anger of the Lord was 
kindled against Uzza, and God smote him there for his error and there he died 
by the ark of God. " 1st Saml. 6:19, "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh 
because (they had even) looked into the ark of the Lord. 50070" — also 2nd 
Saml. 6:2, "And David arose and went with all the people that were with him 
from Baale of Judah to bring up from thence the ark of God whose name is 
called by the name of the Lord of Hosts that Dwelleth between the Cheru- 
bims. " Can there be any less an idol as an object of worship than this? an ark 
with the Lord of Hosts dwelling between the Cherubims with images of emerods 
and golden mice, which is in positive imitatintion of Egyptian Idolaters in 
both ark and images, 1st Saml. 4:3:4, and 5:4:8, "So the people sent to Shilo 
that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts 
which DWELLETH BETWEEN the Cherubims, and the Philistines were afraid for 



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they said God is come into the camp. " Could they have meant the Supreme 
Being or the tribal God of Israel which this ark, like any Idol, represented. Is 
this an idol? ''and they said, woe unto us who shall deliver us out of the hand 
of these mighty Gods, these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians, (from this 
language is there any doubt of a plurality of them like the one on the ark), and 
the Philistines fought and there fell of Israel 30,000 foot men and the ark of 
God was taken and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were slain. 
When Eli heard his two sons were dead and the ark was taken he fell backwards 
and brake his neck, '^ and I Saml. 4:22, ''The Glory is departed from Israel for 
the ark of God is taken." 1st Saml. 5:2-3 "and the Philistinestookthe ark of God 
and they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon and on the 
morrow Dagon was fallen on his face and the}^ set him in his place again and on 
the morrow morning his head and both hands were cut off upon the threshold. (I 
Saml. 5 :4 :7) and only the stump of Dagon was left to him. The ark of the God of 
IsREAL shall not abide with us for his hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon, 
our God. " While the ark was the dwelling place of the God of Israel and being 
the God adopted by the church for the ChristianReligion by its founders. "The 
ark of God whose name is called the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the 
Cherubims. " If this trunk or ark called God is not an Idol, what is one? Can 
any human being for an instant entertain the nonsense, that the Supreme Being 
whom the universe is the measure of his omnipresence, that such a being could 
perch upon the merc}^ seat between two cherubims and converse with the Jews 
in perfect imitation of the Egyptians and Syrians, who made such arks for the 
residence of their Gods of hosts and idols. If Christians would subject the 
Gods of the Bible, to the same scruple that they are capable of in other relations, 
they would soon be able to distinguish the true from the false. The nine fac- 
ulties and twelve eternal principles, called necessary ideas, are the infallible 
sentinels conferred upon man by the Supreme Being, and their voice is as surely 
his voice, as he has any say, whatever in the universe of his evolving : so that 
the line of least resistance, is the path laid out, for intelligence, and the chief 
concern of man is to discover that path. 

Gentlemen and ladies, I am willing to take chances with nothing short of 
the Supreme Being, and I am compelled to discover him with precisely the same 
weapons, which I use in the discovery of every other being or entity. The 
reason, with its power of inference which gives to the soul all eternal realities 
and among them is the Supreme Being. The human mind desires to know what 
an object is, its cause, and its purpose, and since the remote cause begins with 
the Supreme Being, its purpose or final cause ends, in design, which necessitates 
intelligence, in that being. What is the Christian Religion? Since the New 
Testament is the book in which the Christian Religion is contained: we should 
expect to find it formulated where doctrines are set forth, as in Romans and 
Corinthians. 1st Cor. 15:21:22, states, "For since by man came death by 
man came also the resurrection of the dead." "For as in Adam all die even 
so in Christ shall all be made alive." Romans 5:18:19, "Therefore as by the 



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offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the 
righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men justification of life. " ''For 
as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of 
one shall many be made righteous." ''That sin hath reigned unto death 
even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus 
Christ our Lord." "But God commendeth his law toward us in that while 
we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Heb. 10:4. 

What is the outcome of teaching our children that the Pagan God of these 
myths is an entity and that there is a God that works miracles or sometimes 
contradicts the decrees of the Supreme Being. Those animals that refuse to 
obey their instincts perish. Attempt to drive a horse to the verge of a precipice 
and he obeys the instinct of self-preservation and survives those that, in obedi- 
ence to cruelty, dash headlong down its banks, perish. So, likewise, in obedi- 
ence to the cruelty of tyrants, do the masses perish, who are led on to the 
slaughter of their lives from the mere whims of a despot. Instinct in animals 
is a correlate that fits the laws of objective nature: and all animal existence is 
perpetuated on the principle that "nature is uniform," and those specimens 
that disregard that law of nature perish. Priests, monks, and bishops, in their 
false attempt to climb up some other way than the one decreed by the Supreme 
Being of universal nature, where the interest of each is that of all and "vice 
versa:" the transgressors of this law are simply beating the air against the 
ordinances of the Supreme Being : and their Pagan trinity of Gods, seconded by 
their vicegerents, furnish "them a strong delusion and the belief of a lie that 
they all might be damned who believe not the truth," as is verified, II Thes. 
2:11:12. But, in their attempt to substitute dogmatic falsehood for truth, 
the love of truth, and the Moral Law, than which none other ordinance of the 
Supreme Being can protect, guide, and perfect the soul : such triffling dogmas 
as is expressed in Romans 10:9, saying, that: "If thou shalt confess with thy 
mouth (not the understanding, for that could not be employed with such an 
absurdity) the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart (not with the 
power of reason) that God (not the Supreme Being) hath raised (his physical 
body) from the dead, thou shalt be saved. " Do you see the difference between 
salvation by moral truth and by immoral dogma? But priests, monks, and 
bishops, in their false attempt to climb up some other way than the truth: 
and bishops, in their false attempt to climb up some other way than the truth 
and the love of truth, than the right and the love of right, embodied in the Moral 
Law, which is a positive ordinance in man of the Supreme Being : yet the church 
having reduced their Jewish God to common fractions; have concocted a legend- 
ary God the Father, a legendary God the Son, and a legendary God the Holy 
Ghost, interpreted or apostatized by themselves from the words "Virgin" and 
"Immanuel" used B. C. 742 in the original context of Isa. 7:14, as a figure of 
rhetoric for time that should elapse when the cause of King Ahaz's fear of 
threatened dethronement should vanish. This Holy Ghost was voted an object 
of Divine worship and the Lord and giver of life by one hundred and fifty 



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ordained bishops A. D. 381 in council convoked by Emperor Theodosius the 
Great, at Constantinople. 

Thus you have the origin of this August Trinity, or partnership firm, doing 
business under the firm name or partnership title, of Father, Son and Holy 
Ghost, verified Matt. 28:19, the Holy Ghost being by vote, made the true Father 
of God the Son, by act of council, A. D. 381, and God the Son's mother, the 
Virgin Mary being made the true mother of God, the Father by vote, A. D., 431 
at Ephesus. 

So that A. D. 431 at Ephesus, the mere words of Isa. 7:14, of King Ahaz's 
time riddle, were apostatized and tortured to yield, the mother of the first 
person in the trinity, which is one of the Gods taken from the whole Jewish 
God, of which the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, are parts or fractions. The 
entire God, before apostatized, to common fractions, being one of the several 
Gods, of mythology, used for four thousand years or more. Then for the first 
time A. D. 381, to have conferred upon him in trinity, a mother, for the second 
person; and for the second time A. D. 431, to have conferred upon him in trinity 
a mother for the first person; and then for the third time, A. D. 447, to have 
conferred upon him in trinity a mother or grandmother for the third person in 
the trinity. Connumdrum! In the number of new births, conferred upon 
the parts of the Jewish God, at different times and places, which would be the 
elder brother, God the Father or God the Son? Why, God the Son by fifty 
years. ''Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople, was opposed to this measure 
(of voting the Virgin Mary, which the church had apostatized from the mere 
word, ''Virgin" of Isa. 7:14, into the motherhood of these fractions of the 
Jewish God,) since such circumvention tended to justify the folly of other 
Pagans, who gave mothers to their Gods. '' 

But the council of Ephesus, as before mentioned, A. D. 431, made the 
word ''Virgin" (which B. C. 742, was used as one of the incidents, or a rhetorical 
flourish as a landmark in the passing of time) " the Mother of God " the "Father, " 
which "God the Father" is adopted by the Christian Religion and is used as one 
of the inspired vouchers of the New Testament. 

Thus King Ahaz's time riddle first gave the one hundred and fifty bishops 
of the church the Virgin and her Son which they copy from Isaiah 7:14, B. C. 
742 into Matt. 1 :23, and cite at the elaboration of his conception and birth, and 
his own mouth is made use of, to confirm the genuineness of his origin from 
Isa. 7:14, verified Luke, 24:27. And Isa. 7:14 is also made use of in Luke 
1:31 and Matt. 1:23, in connection with this Virgin and son as follows: "Be- 
hold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Im- 
manuel, which being interpreted, is God with us, " couple this with the fact 
that the said bishops A. D. 381, voted the Holy Ghost to be the giver of life. 
Then read the elaboration which follows. Matt. 1:18, "Now the birth of Jesus 
Christ was on this wise. When, as his mother, Mary, was espoused to Joseph 
before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost, and he 
knew her not until she had brought forth her first born son, and he called his 
name Jesus." In the Book of Luke 1:26:27:30 are the words, "In the sixth 
month (of Elizabeth's conception) the Angel Gabriel, (who eleven score years 



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after his services in the reconciliation of Joseph to his spouse became the 
medium of communication between the Jewish God and Mohammed,) was 
sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a Virgin Espoused 
to a man whose name was Joseph of the House of David, and the Virgin's 
NAME was Mary. And the angel said, (with the familiarity of an evangelist) 
Fear not Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. '' And here in King 
James' edition is the citation of King Ahaz's time riddle. Luke 1:31, B. C. 6, 
Isaiah, 7:14, B. C. 742, ''And Behold! thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. " ''Then said Mary unto the 
Angel," Luke 1:34, "How shall this be seeing I know not a man?" But her 
request for a reason was smothered with that soul blighting maxim, Luke 1 :37, 
"With God nothing shall be impossible," which means with such a God as the 
Jewish God nothing shall be impossible. Luke 2:7, B. C. 5, "And she brought 
forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him 
in a manger. " So you have the birth of the second person in the Trinity B. C. 5, 
Luke 2 :7 backed by the illicit use of King Ahaz's time riddle of B. C. 742, dated 
ahead 737 years to B. C. 5, and the acts of council of A. D. 381, dated back to 
to B. C. 5, that is the acts of council of A. D, 381, as elaborated in Matt. 1:18 to 
25, in which Jesus was made incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary was 
dated back three hundred and eighty-six years to 5 B. C, as is also elaborated 
in Luke 2 :7, when the child, Jesus is born in the drama of the New Testament 
which agrees with the acts of Council A. D, 381, and the apostatization, inter- 
pretation or construction that the anonymous bishops put upon the words 
"Virgin and Emmanuel" of King Ahaz's time riddle. Thus the prophecy, by 
the decision of one hundred and fifty bishops, has yielded its second function. 
First a time riddle, for the comfort of King Ahaz; dictated to Isaiah by the 
Jewish God, next the origin of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who by vote 
is made a sin offering for Original Sin, verified I Cor. 15:22, and dated back 
from A. D. 381, to A. D. 59 and worded by the formula, "For, as in Adam., all 
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. " At the aforesaid council Jesus 
Christ, the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary are formulated thus "Jesus Christ 
is incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary" in fulfillment of King Ahaz's 
time riddle, verified Matt. 1:22 and Luke 1:31. Next the Virgin Mary A. D. 
431 is, by vote at Ephesus, made the mother of God the Father, which enables 
God the Father to derive his origin from the virgin of King Ahaz's time riddle. 
Third, the Holy Ghost A. D. 447, by the Latin church in Spain, was made to 
proceed from both Father and Son, and in France at the Council of Lyons A. D. 
1274, when and where the Holy Ghost was made to proceed from the Father 
and Son, which enables the Holy Ghost to claim, his no less significant origin 
as a descendant from King Ahaz's time riddle, and its Virgin for a grandmother. 
Now then, is any man in his senses going to admit that, his God, or that the 
Supreme Being is anyone of this partnership firm of Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost, each one of which the church has forced its Proselytes to believe, is 
genuine and to derive its origin from King Ahaz's time riddle, delivered in the 
first instance, to King Ahaz for his comfort B. C. 742 and exhausted its function 
by fulfilling its legitimate purpose B. C. 739, when both kings were dead and 



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consequently King Ahaz's fear for which the sign originated, was removed. 
Nevertheless, one hundred and fifty bishops, whose votes were infallible and 
whose prowess was undaunted, in open defiance of the real universe and preroga- 
tive of the One, only, true Supreme Being; start the Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost from this sign given for the comfort of King Ahaz who from religious 
zeal, burnt his children in the fire, and made images to the God, Baalim, and 
burnt incense to all manner of Gods, making him a special favorite of the Jewish 
God as is instanced by his yielding an unsought sign for his comfort, Isa. 7:13:14, 
B. C. 742 and verified 2nd Chron. 28:3:25. You can take your choice. You 
can claim that your trinity derives its origin from King Ahaz's metaphorical 
figure of rhetoric for time delivered B. C. 742 from which the Virgin was then 
used as one of the incidents to develop a time relation or as the principal land- 
mark in the passing of three years' time, which yielded and exhausted its func- 
tion, B. C. 739, by King Pekah's death and was at an end, but which eleven hun- 
dred and twenty odd years later was compelled to yield from words used as a 
mere rhetorical flourish a function totally repugnant to the elapse of time which 
is no less an object of worship than our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ or God 
the Son, verified by copy. Matt. 1 :23, which B. C. 739, exhausted its function by 
Pekah's death not withstanding eleven hundred and seventy years later or 
A. D. 431 the word "Virgin" of Isa. 7:14, was tortured, to yield the first person 
in the Trinity for a Son or God the Father: and the Holy Ghost was voted A. D. 
447 to have originated from both God the Father ana God the Son, which would 
enable God the Holy Ghost to claim this mother of the two senior members 
of the firm for a grandmother. If you do not like to claim that your Trinity 
originated B. C. 742, from the word '^ Virgin" of Isaiah 7:14, signifying mother- 
hood as a land-mark in the passing of time and copied into Matt. 1 :23, as the 
prophecy, in fulfillment of which, God the Father, and God the Holy Ghost 
derive their origin. You can go back to the mythological Abram, a personifi- 
cation of the sign Ram of the zodiac, but at the age of ninety-nine the Jewish 
God changed his name from Abram to Abraham, verified Gen. 17:5, which is 
used, Gal. 4:22:23:24:25 as an incident in a metaphorical figure of rhetoric 
in comparison of the Old and New Jerusalem, which things by the New Testa- 
ment are pronounced an allegory meaning a myth. Now then the Jewish God 
is used by the writer of Exodus as the utterer of the expression, Ex. 3:15, ''The 
God of Abraham, this is my name, and this is my memorial unto all generations. " 
So that the God of Abraham or the Jewish God is a myth or allegory. Gal. 
4 :24 by the New Testament itself. And, since God the Son from the genealogies 
of Matt. 1, and Luke 3, derives his origin by descent from the Jewish God 
through the allegorical Abraham, and he being a myth, all his descendants are 
from this source by necessity myths; and, since God the Son is such a descend- 
ant, or a m-ere apostatization of the word ''Immanuel" that makes him a 
myth. And, since God the Holy Ghost derives his origin from both the mythical 
God the Father and the mythical God the Son A. D. 447 by act of Council who 
in turn derive their origin from the allegorical God of Abraham by the axiomatic 
truth that the fate of the effect must follow the fate of its cause, hence God the 
Holy Ghost is mythical. Thus you pay your money and take your choice. 



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One source of the Trinity by Biblical geneology, Matt. 1 to 17 and Luke 3:23 
to 38, is from Abraham, Ex. 3:15, B. C. 1872. Another source of the trinity 
is King Ahaz's Virgin B. C. 742, Isaiah 7:14. Each having a figurative origin 
are equally mythical and inspired 

But the time riddle of the prophet, which was merely the period of gesta- 
tion and some time to elapse before the child could distinguish good from evil, 
or say my father or my mother, which, at the outside, was fulfilled within three 
years, according to the story, whether it was fiction, allegory or history, the 
sign was at an end. Natwithstanding the said bishops settle down on this 
as sufficient material with which to generate a Savior; so they apostatize the 
word ''Virgin," to mean, ''Virgin Mary," and the word "Immanuel" to mean 
"God with us," with what authority their votes could add, and what elabora- 
tion their quills could furnish and what meaning the words of Isa. 7:14 could yield 
(which is none whatsoever) that could be used as a prophecy which could be 
adequately fulfilled, so that A. D. 381, the said bishops vote that the Holy Ghost 
is the giver of life. They vote that Jesus Christ is incarnate by the Holy Ghost 
of the Virgin Mary, which is verified Matt. 1:18, where this vote is elaborated 
and Isaiah's rhetorical figure for time called "Immanuel" B. C. 742, but A. D. 
381 is called "Emmanuel" and interpreted to mean "God with us," verified 
Matt. 1:23 and the acts of council are elaborated and embellished by the 
words, "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when, as his mother, 
Mary, was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with 
child of the Holy Ghost. " "Now all this was done (by whom, when, and where? 
by one hundred and fifty bishops, A. D., 381 at Constantinople. For what 
purpose?) That it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord 
by the prophet saying. Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall 
bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel. (And the anony- 
mous bishops add their own interpretation of the word, "Immanuel" to be) 
God with us. Then, Joseph, being raised from sleep, took unto him his wife, 
and knew her not till she had brought forth her first born son, and he called 
his name Jesus. " These bishops at the same aforesaid council voted that 
Jesus shall be an object of worship, so when their work is elaborated we find 
the words, Matt. 2:11, "And when they, (the wise men,) were come into the 
house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and 
worshipped him. " Which adoration or worship as an attribute or character- 
istic the drama sets forth throughout his career. 

Are all christians so bewildered that they will renounce the One Only 
Supreme Being who is an Entity, who is a principle of intelligence, which 
arises by the law of inference, who governs all of the contents of space accord- 
ing to unalterable decree who is the author and origin in the human soul of the 
faculty of reason, of the power of truth and right as a guide and guard against 
the soul's desecration with theunreasonable, with the false, and with the wrong? 
Can mankind renounce a being of this kind for the Trinity of mythology, each 
member of which is parented after the order of paganism, and each by vote 
is made an object of worship after the order of paganism, Jesus Christ, 
God the Son, or "God with us, " was made lower than the angels, yet the angels 



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by the Jewish God or those who talk for him are commanded to worship him 
which is both fetich and idolatrous, and it follows that if one third of the Jewish 
God is lower than the angels the other two-thirds must follow the fate of the 
one-third so that if one third is lower than the angels the whole or entire Jewish 
God is below them;any portion of which could not possibly be the Supreme Being, 
Now the human mind is so constituted that it cannot believe in the uni- 
formity of nature, and that its cause must be adequate the effect in uniformity 
and call that cause God, and, at the same time, contradict that uniformity 
and call the cause of the contradiction God, and then say it shows their God's 
unlimited power from the fact that he can contradict himself and use for a 
maxim that ^' Everything is possible with God. " Now this is the method of the 
high-handed double dealing of Christian Sophists, and this sort of legerdemain 
it ascribes to its God and the Proselyte naturally thinks that, he is God-like in 
doing the same thing. Job 4:17 states, ''Shall a man be more pure than his 
maker or more just than the (Jewish) God?" Now all this double knavery 
in the name of a God is ridiculous, false, and absurd. The Supreme Being can- 
not be attributed with these diametrically opposite proclivities. Either you 
must accept the Supreme Being that comports with your axiom that ''Nature 
is uniform" and that the cause or the Supreme Being must be adequate to the 
effect in uniformity or abandon your axiom altogether. You cannot play fast 
and loose with axiomatic truth without relegating your faculties to the realm 
of impotence. In short you cannot hurt the Supreme Being to lie about him, 
but, in lying about his laws and their correlative axioms of the human mind, 
you pronounce the sure doom of impotence upon your powers by the practice 
of contradiction upon yourself, and, since our treatment of axiomatic truth 
involves the laws of the One Only True Ruler, you play fast and loose with 
eternal realities at the Peril of your powers. No Father, Son nor Holy 
Ghost ever invented by an Emperor's bishops to help out his caprice, in the 
management of human nature, in the universe of the Supreme Being, (in order 
to blight and to wither their moral power; by forcing their unqualified assent, 
to murder or the crucifixion of "God the Son;" portrayed and believed to be a 
human being and God combined; a quality which comprised most of the Pagan 
Gods.) But no such God or trinity of Gods were they all to take crucifixion 
in effigy, pantomime or according to agreement, can wholly eradicate the intui- 
tions of truth and right, which are ordinances of the Supreme Being, set up in 
the human soul. And such dogmas as Original Sin among those mis- 
taking the imaginary dominion of the Jewish God, for the real universe of 
the Supreme Being such would of necessity make the rule of those so mistaken 
a rule of vice, and the exception, virtue, for which virtue, all must seek pardon, 
expressed by the formula, Rom. 10:9, "In thou shalt confess with thy mouth 
the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from 
the dead thou shalt be saved. " And I Cor. 16:22, "For as in Adam all die, 
even so in Christ shall all be made alive," and Rom. 11:32, "For God hath 
concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all," and God 
the Son saith, Mark 16:16, "He that believeth not shall be damned." Such 
dogmas must of necessity infect the soul of all believers with more or less 
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Such dogmas if believed, positively stop up the possibility of the soul's 
power, to evoke the moral order of the Supreme Being, latent in and native to 
the human soul. And when a tyrant, (supported by his trinity of Gods, like 
the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost; persists in the confirmation that virtue 
is punishable; in the universe of the Supreme Being, as is set up in the fable of 
Adam and his God, and as is unqualifiedly adopted by the church as the founda- 
tion of the Christian Religion;) crosses the path of a man in the conscious posses- 
sion and use of the intuitions of truth and right, and a positive faith in 
the behest of the Moral Law, set up in the human soul by the Supreme Being, 
and the said tyrant and his trinity, attempts to rout them; it is the Emperor 
and trinity of Gods, that are in the transgression and not Adam and Eve, or 
any of the rest of common humanity or the Supreme Being, their originator. 
And, as for assenting to divine worship, ascribed by vote to the three persons 
in the God-head, the same thing had been done (among the Egyptians, Asyrians, 
as well as was accorded to the Goddess, Diana, Marcus Aurelius, and Augustus 
Caesar,) for centuries, all of whom were accorded divine worship (the same as 
the bishops of the church had conferred upon every several member of their 
august trinity) by the Roman Senate, to whom incense was burned and tem- 
ples were erected. 

The fact that heat draws out pain, and snow draws out frost, is no reason 
for using the wicked to draw out the immoral; much less, in founding a religion 
as is the case of Adam's disobedience, a crime should be used as crucifixion, to 
cancel a virtue; even though an imaginary God by Adam's exile had suffered 
such despicable conduct to be read into his nature as a passport which has 
trapped the church and which the church recommends Rom. 3:7:8, ''For if the 
truth of God hath more abounded through my Lie, unto his glory, why yet am I 
also judged as a sinner, as some affirm that we say, let us do evil, that good may 
come, whose damnation is just." 

And this is the only case where the anonymous bishops land the avalanch 
of their own wickedness on their own heads. It is an axiomatic truth that a 
nation is no more moral than the God it worships. Confirmed Job 4:17 ''Shall a 
man be more just than a God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?" 
The christian nation is no more moral than the original Jewish God, or any one 
member of his seggregated parts or trinity; for like a partnership the guilt of 
each arising within the scope of their employment or imputed mission is the 
guilt of all. 

It has been demonstrated that the senior member of the firm with a charac- 
ter as disclosed by his confessor Moses, is an old criminal at drowning; so much 
so that upon his own confession, he was obliged to put a rainbow in. the cloud 
as a reminder, that occasionally his temper was ungovernable in the dealing 
with his own images and likenesses; but that was only to guard him against 
the crime of drowning. 

As an incendiary, he can whip Nero two to one, and all to punish men who 
were obeying his orders to Adam, for the indiscriminate revelry in good and 
evil. He has the courage to punish Adam for an act of uncompromising virtue, 
with nine hundred and twenty-nine years at hard labor; and then let his church 



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four thousand three hundred and eighty-five years later, inflict punishment 
over again, according to agreement, upon himself or a fraction of himself for 
precisely the same offense and charge it up to all the nations in his dominion, 
as a church debt or deficit to be met and paid to his vicegerents, verified Rom. 
5:12, '' Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, 
so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. " 

He has the courage to reward Abraham for his attempt at the murder of 
his only begotten son, for obedience to his immoral command with blessings 
upon all nations confirmed with oath, verified Gen. 22:16:17, and then let his 
church go way back over his oath, and dig upon an old curse, already expiated 
and forgotten with which to rear Original Sin. He has the courage to threaten 
seven-fold vengeance on the one who should assault Cain, and then drown all 
his descendants; but Noah and Sons. 

He has the courage to join the murderous, lying, conspiracy, for Ahab's 
death, which would be a correction for covetousness at the expense of murder. 
He has the courage to swear, that since Abraham obeyed his immoral command 
in intent, his ''seed should possess the gates of this God's enemies;" (then as set 
forth in Rom. 5:12, and I Cor. 15:22, he has the courage to curse all mankind). 

A nation can be no more moral at heart than its God, whether in unity or 
trinity; and since the work above narrated, is the work of the Jewish God, 
adopted throughout his dominion, in the christian world, they will be no more 
moral than he is. Now then, those who persist in continued allegiance to this 
God in unity or trinity, should insist upon his clergy; on having him revamped 
and remodeled, for he savors too much of ignorance and crime. Can the chris- 
tians free themselves of this God? They could not, if he were a Genuine Enti- 
ty; but being only an imaginary counterfeit, or mere product of human fancy 
and since his dominion is only one of primitive fancy there is not the least 
difficulty in the world to dispense wdth him together with his realm and prerroga- 
tiveand drop this council manufactured trinity, — (made on their own testi- 
mony below the angels altogether, and since one-third is inspiredly, so declared, 
it of necessity carries with it the balance or remaining two-thirds, and the 
original God being the very same God of the Jews, Christian and Mohammedans, 
(a tribal God originally confined to the ten tribes or province of Israel and called 
the God of Israel as is numerously instanced in I Sam'l. 5:7), each indiscrim- 
inately branding the other as infidels, and the Jews and Mohammedans brand- 
ing the Christians Blasphemers for reducing their original God to fractions), — 
a firm, every member of which is of Pagan origin and furnished by vote of 
Council with Pagan parentage. What is the nature of this Jewish God in his 
dealing with Abraham, be it fiction or fact? Is he moral, or immoral? That 
is the True test of the Genuiness of a God. 

If this God could, in any possible manner, be considered as moral as the 
best man we know of, there might be some show in regarding him as not a mere 
product of the imagination or human fancy; but since his nature as depicted by 
his inspired writers, is one endless scene of rapine, plunder, double dealing, 
and crime, he is not an Entity; his character is only the off -scouring of a p e- 
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If he were an Entity, he must be a reality and moral; and his character 
must be beyond human power of criticism, as is the Supreme Being, whose 
nature instead of being read into him, can only be discovered through his laws. 
If he is a myth, whether that be moral or immoral, he derives his origin from 
the narrator, who reads his character into him as is unmistakably the case * 
with the Jewish God later the trinity. 

Gen. 22:1:2, ''God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, take now thy 
son, thine only son, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there 
for a burnt offering, upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of, and 
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and went, and on the third day he saw 
the place afar off, and he said unto his young men, abide ye here and I and the 
lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you; and he took the wood 
and laid it upon his son and took the fire in his hand, and knife, and they went 
both of them together; and the son said, behold the fire and the wood, but where 
is the lamb, for the burnt offering; and Abraham said, my son, God will pro- 
vide himself a lamb for a burnt offering; and Abraham built an altar and laid 
his son on the altar upon the wood, and Abraham stretched forth his hand and 
took his knife to slay the son, and the angel of the Lord called to him out of 
heaven, and said, Abraham, and he said, here am I, and he said lay not thine 
hand upon the lad, neither do anything unto him; for now I know that thou 
fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. ' ' 
Now then what was the purpose of this Jewish God's demand for human sacri- 
fice, if not to show the masses that unqualified obediences is the allegiance due 
this God; and since other Pagans all about, were offering other Jewish Gods, 
human sacrifices, this God was pleased to discover that allegiance to him was 
in no manner short of allegiance from the subjects of other Pagan Gods. 

But how does this tally with the Moral Law, of the Supreme Being of our 
universe, as set up in the human soul, (which is the only true test with which 
all things pertaining to the character of Gods or men must be tried. This 
obedience is not sanctioned by the Moral Law, and is a sin under its behest; 
but this is church and Biblical religion and righteousness, as is repeatedly used 
as an illustration and portraiture of righteousness as depicted in both Old and 
New Testaments, which fail not, to launch endless encomiums upon this very 
act of Abraham. Such obedience is in positive subversion of the Moral Order 
of the Supreme Being. For if believed,it puts a premium on the crime of murder, 
and that too, whether the Proselytes of Christianity are actively conscious of 
the fact or not, it makes the rule of what ever dominion and under whatever 
God, mankind surrenders allegiance a rule of vice; and the exception virtue. 
''And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven, a second time; 
and said, by myself I have sworn saith the Lord, because thou hast done this 
thing and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, in blessing I will bless thee 
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. " 

Why so? Because this God (lacking the power of omnicience in his do- 
minion a quality always in use by the Deity in the universe of the Supreme 
Being) wanted to see if his followers like other Pagans, would honor him with 
the slaughter of a human victim; and finding them savage enough to make 



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such a sacrifice, he confirms his promise of blessing in their behalf, and the 
behalf of all nations, with an oath. 

"And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou 
hast obeyed my voice. " (which promise B. C. 1804 is confirmed by the Jewish 
God to Abraham's son Isaac, Gen. 24:4 and 12:3 and 18:18, and 22:18 and Acts 
3:25; Gal. 3:8). All of which is set at naught by the Church which goes way 
BACK 1800 years over this oath of their God, to bless them, and rakes up 
ONE OF HIS OLD CURSES, with which to DAMN THEIR Proselytes. When Abra- 
ham said, "I and the lad will go yonder and worship, '' what was his intention? 
What does he mean by worship or devotion to the Jewish God? Why to obey, 
and commit murder, that was the most expressive form, of allegiance and 
worship, to such a God. 

Now then, when this writer, by the mouth of this Jewish God's angel, 
heaps promises confirmed with oath and praise, upon Abraham for carrying his 
command to sacrifice his son to such a pass, that no vestige of doubt lingered 
in his mind but that Abraham would slay his victim; then he swears to bless 
Abraham and all the nations of the earth. 

But who wants blessings of any God purchased on such conditions? Is 
there any doubt in the mind of anyone, about the moral character of this God? 
But some will say, that he was merely triffling with Abraham to try his faith. 

This command to commit crime is just as immoral as the command to 
Adam prohibiting knowledge: is just as immoral, as the command to the'4ying 
spirit," to entice Ahab to his death, but Adam stood by the Moral Law of the 
Supreme Being, and as the fable goes, was punished for it; by the Jewish God, 
in order to display his indefensible authority. 

And the Christian Religion and the entire New Testament has lavished 
encomiums from first to last upon this fabulous mythological, Jewish God for 
his mal-treatment of Adam, and because Adam was true to his intuition of 
right, and the behest of the Moral Law, his name (and all his descendants, Rom. 
5:12 and Cor. 15:22, in the New Testament from first to last,) is one malediction 
of execration, in which all men must participate as accomplices in Original 
Sin. Now then, Abraham obeyed this God's immoral command, or went far 
enough so that the intention was complete. What does this God say under 
oath, by the mouth of an angel, Gen. 22:17:18. "Because thou hast done this 
thing, in blessing, I will bless thee, and in thy seed shall all nations of the earth 
be blessed." Not much like nine hundred and twenty-nine years at hard labor 
with the ground cursed to the growth of thorns and thistles to increase the 
burden which was the price Adam paid for his obedience to the moral law and 
his obedience to the intuition of right set up in the soul by the Supreme Being. 
All of which puts a premium on lawlessness or the indiscriminate revel in good 
and evil. 

How do the one hundred and fifty bishops of the New Testament treat Abra- 
ham's obedience, which was a positive intent to murder? Is he execrated as is 
Adam for disobedience? Not at all. And this is positive proof of the under- 
lying character of the New Testament and Christian Religion as well as the 
church which makes use of it as a text-book, James 2:21, states, "Was not 



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Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac, his son, 
upon the altar? And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed 
God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the 
friend of God." Also Gal. 3:6, ''Even as Abraham believed God, and it was 
accounted to him for righteousness, and the Scripture, foreseeing that God 
would justify the heathen through faith, saying. In Abraham shall all nations 
nations be blessed, ''which is a mere jest on Original Sin and redemption, then 
as now in full force. And in Gal. 3:16 is expressed the very ultimate of knaveryy 
in the attempt to shift the blessing from all of Abraham's descendants on to the 
new sect comprised of mixed races which means a shift from the narrated Jewish 
race, to the pictorial Jesus Christ, a cross between the Roman Pagan and 
Jewish Idolater, verified by the words, "Now to Abraham and his seed were 
the promises made. He saith, Not and to seeds as of many, but as of one and to 
thy seed, as though to shut off the Jews' the word seed could be less plural than 
seeds in portraying the meaning of descent which the narrator, intends to apply 
to the Savior which is Christ. " Thus is manifest the degree in which this Christ 
is extolled by the narrators at the Jews, expense, and they malign Adam who is 
justified in the acquisition of knowledge by the Moral Law. And thus the 
moral character of the Christian Religion and the New Testament is positively 
known by the way in which its narrators have treated as biographers the charac- 
ter and conduct of Adam and Abraham. Thus the writers of the New Testa- 
ment positively ignore the Moral Law, as being in any possible manner binding 
upon them or entitled to their notice. If an immoral command is issued in the 
name of their particular God, this alone settles all moral considerations. Adam's 
moral character, other incidents normal, in the acquisition of knowledge of 
good and evil, is desecrated throughout the New Testament, because main- 
tained against an immoral command, in the name of the Jewish God. 

And Abraham's immoral character is loaded with encomiums from first 
to last, in both Old and New Testaments. Why? Because he obeys, the im- 
moral command issued in the name, of their particular Jewish God. 

So that if a command is anchored to a God, that settles every moral con- 
sideration. Do you see? Verified Job 4:17, "Shall mortal man be more just, 
than God, shall a man be more pure, than his maker, " that always depends on 
the moral status, of their makers and originators, who read their natures, into 
them; a Bible God like the Chameleon takes his bespotted nature from that 
with which he is most closely identified. 

Thus the Christian Religion, by the use of its Jewish God positively ignores 
the Moral Law of the Supreme Being. Was it moral, for this God to command 
the Jews to get their bondsmen or slaves from the heathen around about them, 
saying: "Of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids, verified Lev. 25:44, 
and the children of strangers that do sojourin among you, of them shall ye buy, 
and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land (that is 
native born) and they shall be your possession. They shall be your bondmen 
forever; but over your brethren the Children of Israel, ye shall not rule 
over one another with rigor, "Is any man so utterly lost; as to think this God 
could be the Supreme Being. Do you need any more evidence that the children 



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of Israel alone absorbed His attention? could human thought be so impaired as 
to admit that mankind must furnish this tribe its slaves, verified Lev. 25:45:46; 
which is a demonstration not only that the Moral Law was positively unknown 
among Biblical narrators, but is a positive demonstration that this Jewish 
God, is only a tribal God as is evidenced in I Sam'l. 5 and 6, where he is desig- 
nated only as the God of Israel with a character and conduct more immoral 
than any other, the devil not excepted. This God being one of a plurality, who 
presided over the Israelitish Jew alone at the expense of all surrounding nations, 
verified I Sam'l. 4:8 and 5:3:4. Is any man so lost to sense reason and infer- 
ence as to pronounce such a God the Supreme Being of all nations as well as 
the universe, who by commandment subjects them to the slavery of his dominion 
circumscribed by the Israelites. Why his own inspired biographers demon- 
strate that this Jewish God even commanded that all but Israelitish Jews could 
be turned into bondmen and bondmaids. 

I am satisfied that all men if morally and rationally instructed, might 
prefer to have a knowledge of the true cause, or Supreme Being of which the 
contents of space is the phenomenon. 

Just as sure as the tree itself, is the noumenon causing the various phenom- 
ena, or appearances which are grasped by the senses, so sure is the Supreme 
Being the noumenon or enduring entitiy of which you and I and the universe, 
are merely a manifestation or phenomenal existences. Again, you are the 
noumenal existence for all your activities, which are phenomenal to that exist- 
ence. Noumena and phenomena or realities and their manifestations are related 
to one another as cause and effect. Every effect has a cause, every phenomenon 
has a noumenon. 

So also every attribute has a substance. Now the Supreme Being stands 
in the relation of cause, noumenon, or substance to the entire contents of space 
The Supreme Being may stand in thought as cause, when the mind for its 
purpose, treats the universe as an effect; as noumenon when the mind treats 
the universe as phenomenon, as substance when the mind treats the universe 
as an attribute. 

But it would involve an absurdity than which there could be no greater; 
to say that the Christian Trinity or any council made member of the firm, should 
stand as cause, noumenon, or substance for the effects phenomena, or attri- 
butes, that are on exhibition, and represent actual existence, in the universe 
of the Supreme Being. Y/hy? Because, these imaginary products are forced, 
by their originator, the church, to contradict one another upon senseless 
dogmas; that is to say, God the Father ''Hath concluded all in unbelief that he 
might have mercy upon all" as he predestines, and God the Son concludes that 
all consigned by God the Father to such unbelief, shall be damned, verified Rom. 
11:32, and Mark 16:16. 

So that if such Gods had the management of this universe for one single 
instant, all safety would be forever at an end. 

Suppose such warring Gods were to manage the orbs of space, but such a 
notion for reflection is positively unthinkable. It is fortunate for mankind 
that this trinity of Gods is confined to paper and ink, and the hobbies of the 



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superstitious, being there, they are positively as harmless in the management 
of the heavenly bodies as the bugbears of the pictorial novels and fables which 
the trifling will always attempt to realize and imitate. This Father, Son and 
Holy Ghost belong to their kindred Diana, Asteroth, Baalim, Chemosh, Dagon, 
Ashima, Nebhaz, Tartak, Nisroch, Remphan, any of which could, at the most, 
be simply the name of a star like the word ''sun, " verified JRev. 22:16, and all 
are as safe as the paper and ink to which each is positively confined: the only 
difference is one set of Gods are treated by symbols the other as imaginary 
or mythical. And, as for the Supreme Being, he is as positively unknown to 
men not acquainted with the Moral Law: (Since in any intelligent sense it 
is axiomatic that ''only in so far as there is intelligence is there a Moral Law 
at all, ") as was the case with the scribes who wrote the Old Testament, and as is 
the case with the one hundred and fifty bishops whose votes and writings make 
up the New Testament, which is positively demonstrated, by their treatment 
of Adam's virtue and obedience to the Moral Law, which is branded as sin, 
in both Testaments from first to last. And Abraham's positive intention to 
kill his own son, in obedience to a criminal command, evokes a blessing from 
this immoral trifling God, confirmed with an oath in the Old Testament, and his 
immoral act, of obedience to a criminal command, to sacrifice his own son, is 
extolled as righteousness by the anonymous writers, of the New Testament, 
from first to last. Why? Because it sets up the rule of maudlin, servile, infan- 
tile obedience for the masses and the attitude of their ruler in such behalf, ver- 
ified James 2:21 :23 by the words "Was not Abraham justified by works when he 
offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar. Abraham believed God, and it was 
imputed unto him for righteousness." Rom. 4:3, "For what saith the Scrip- 
ture, (not what saith the Moral Law, which Scripture antagonizes) Abraham 
believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." but the God 
being antagonistic to the Moral Law: cancels both him and his Scripture "Even 
as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, (and 
Gal. 3:6:7), they which are of faith the same, are the children of Abraham." 
Faith in what? Faith in the eflftcacy of insensible obedience. And Acts 3:25, 
"Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with 
our fathers, saying (under oath, by the mouth of an angel unto Abraham) and 
in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." Why? Because 
he staggered not to murder his own son in open defiance of the Moral Law of 
the Supreme Being, and in positive allegience to the pictorial God of despotism: 
which immoral act, the New Testament extols from first to last, but maligns 
Adam for obedience to the Moral Law : and the New Testament treats such 
obedience to the Moral Law by him with utter contempt : and as the curse of all 
mankind. But be it known that the Supreme Being must stand as cause of 
all secular and Moral Laws, by which he binds himself and all things else. Now 
the stream cannot rise higher than the fountain. The effect, human intelli- 
gence, cannot rise to a greater degree of perfection than its cause, universal 
intelligence, comprised in the Supreme Being. So that, however far you 
may advance in intelligence, there you will always find the universal principle 
of intelligence as a companion which accompanies your effort. Not so with 



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an inferior God, a God set up by human fancy as are each and all of the imagi- 
nary Gods in both Old and New Testaments, which the merest tyro with the 
weapon of the Moral Law can put to flight. If anyone of them was an entity 
or a reality, they could meet the tests of the Moral Law, but as they vanish 
before its majesty, they all are mere myths. But the evidence is conclusive 
that the writers of Biblical legends had not the slightest vestige of moral sense, 
verified Deut. 22:6:7 by the words, ''If a bird's nest chance to be before thee 
in the way, in an}^ tree or on the ground, whether they be young ones or eggs 
and the dam sitting upon the young ones or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take 
the dam with the young, but thou shalt in any wise, let the dam go, and take 
the young to thee that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong 
thy days. What wisdom for an Anthropoid ape or to cultivate the vice of 
cruelty : this is a match for the corn theft story. Also Deut. 23:25, "When thou 
comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor, thou mayest pluck the ears with 
thy hand, but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn. " 
Would farmers in the United States yield to such inspiration except as a Sun- 
day School lesson. Adopted and imitated by God the Son, the infallible rule 
of the Egyptians and Syrians first stain your God's hands then your own. 
Matt. 12:1, Mark 2:23, Luke 6:1. Is it moral or immoral to imitate these 
fictions? In some localities it might pass since it is anchored to a God for 
license to evil as a Sunday School lesson, but is immoral in practice, and pun- 
ished as theft; all of which is a positive demonstration that primitive writers 
of inspired chimeras are positively devoid of moral sense or principle, and 
Christians believe in the theories. Every Christian that joins a sect anchors 
himself to a false theory which is a corruptor of good faith. The meager attempt 
to formulate the Moral Law as exhibited in James 2:19, is a proposition con- 
tradicting itself, verified, by the words, "Whosoever shall keep the whole law 
and yet offened in one point, he is guilty of all. " Ask yourself how a man 
could keep the whole law and be guilty in one point. Such a mixup is the 
very ultimate of contradiction and absurdity. If the bishop had been honest, 
he would have said. If you intend a single crime as did Abraham before the 
bar of the Moral Law with the sacrifice of his son, or as did Ahab's God which 
conspired with the four hundred, to entice him to his bodily death, "you are 
(positively immoral or) guilty of all." He would have escaped the charge of 
cowardice and contradiction in the attempt to display the Moral Law. The 
same chapter James 2:21. When the occasion arose to make application of, 
and to wield the weapon, in his treatment of Abraham concerning the attempt 
to sacrifice the life of his son, the anonymous writer by the mouth of fisherman, 
James 2:10:21 was not only powerless to wield the weapon of the Moral Law, 
when occasion presented itself, but, like the infant, when met face to face with 
a heinous unconscionable criminal, he drops his weapon and falls a victim, to 
the positive immoralit}^ of both Abraham and his God, verified James 2:21 by 
the words "Was not Abraham our father, justified by works when he had 
offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar?" a statement that outcowards cowardice, 
but a statement which the feeble mind of the writer was as powerless to 
know, to be in open defiance, to the intuition of right, and the Moral Law of 



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the Supreme Being, set up in the soul of man, as a cradled infant would^ 
the use of an open razor, as a weapon of defense or danger. The same 
bishop James 1:13, who states, James 2:21 ''Was not Abraham, our father, 
justified by works when he had offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar?" a state- 
ment which is a positive impeachment of the writer's moral sense or integrity. 
But, in the face of his familiarity with Genesis, 22:9, yet in Genesis 22:1:2 
wherein is written ''God did tempt Abraham, and said take now thy son, 
thine only son into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt 
OFFERING." This immoral bishop has the hardihood to say James 1:13 "Let 
no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be 
tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. " Could this writer know 
anything at all of the Septaugint or Vulgate of St. Jerome could he even know 
the Israelitish God at all. Yet, again, II Chron. 18:19, "The Lord said, Who 
SHALL ENTICE Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead (when a laying spirit 
offered his services and said,) I will entice him and the Lord said Wherewith? 
And he said, I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the 
Lord said. Thou shalt entice him and thou shalt also prevail. Go out and 
DO EVEN so. " Now then this is the same Lord or it is not. He enters the 
conspiracy to Ahab's death, or he does not, that is he tempts Ahab or he does 
not. He tempts Abraham or he does not. And the bishop who wrote James 
James 1:13, saying "God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he 
any man" is either lying or is talking about a different God. But, since he 
quotes from Genesis 22:9, the presumption is that he is familiar with Genesis 
22:1:2, which states "God did tempt Abraham" to slay and sacrifice his Son, 
and means the same God as there depicted, which is proof of his conscious contra- 
diction of the original text be it fiction or fact. Do you ask what is the original 
libel that the church has launched against mankind? I will state it Rom. 5:12, 
"Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world and death 
by sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Before 
you plead guilty, and admit this malicious charge, against yourself, see if the 
libel is contradicted, by the mouth of the witness used, by the bishop which 
prefers the charge. If it is contradicted by both, they are impeached as falsi- 
fiers. By the mouth of the same witness, Paul 1, Tim. 2:14 is the utterance 
"Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the trans- 
gression," a statement, which positively impeaches the witness^, and the writer 
which uses him. If that is not enough, to remove j^our suspicion of personal 
guilt, consult the Moral Law of the Supreme Being? Was the command to 
prohibit the knowledge of good and evil, that one may intelligently choose 
the good and reject the evil, moral? If the command to compel ignorance and 
invite weakness and lawlessness is immoral before the bar of your own intuition 
of right, grown in the universe of the Supreme Being, then Adam's disobedience 
to such an order for human degeneracy is commanded by the Moral Law of 
the Supreme Being and such an order could only issue, from an imm.oral mind, 
using the term God, to further its contaminating purpose. If that is not 
enough to remove your suspicion of guilt make up your mind at once that you 
are a moral degenerate, with not sufficient intelligence to be amenable to the 



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Moral Law, and need medical advice only, for any further additions of super- 
stitious folly is adding insult to injury with a by product of a hyper-sensitive 
physical and spiritual organism for vice. The dogma for absolution and pardon, 
expressed by the formula Rom. 10:9, sajdng that, ''If thou shalt confess with 
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised 
him from the dead, thou shalt be saved," saved from what? Original Sin. 
But, when you confess the Lord Jesus, you admit Adam's obedience to the 
Moral Law to be a sin in open defiance of the decree of the Supreme Being, to 
the contrary, which is the intuition of right enthroned in the human soul. 
Thus, you renounce your allegiance, to the Supreme Being and enter the domin- 
ion of a God set up by oppression. 

Original Sin being a virtue, there can be no possible reason in the universe 
of the Supreme Being, for a human sacrifice or the crucifixion of a man or God, 
to expiate virtue. That truth is self-evident. 

And even if (in the dominion of the Jewish God where no moral law exists) 
Adam's disobedience was accounted a misdemeanor, against his God's perero- 
gative, there is no reason then, for a sentence of nine hundred and twenty-nine 
years at hard labor, to expiate such a misdemeanor even if Adam had been ceded 
with personal accountability during his first year's existence: (and was forced 
to face a command, in positive contradiction, of such accountability:) much less 
would the crucifixion of a victim forty-four centuries later be justified in such a 
region. Why? Because the subjects of a throne are put in jeopardy twice for 
the same offence : and because a felony by authority, is used to expiate a misde- 
meanor, which would cause the intelligent quadruped to rise in judgment against 
such a perversion of powers : which makes the founders of the Christian Religion 
even less discreet, in their infliction of punishment, than the God, whom they 
have adopted: which is not only below the angels but has less discretion than 
the quadruped displays in the management of its young. But take the case 
away from the dominion of the imagination. Is there any reason for human 
beings, in allegiance to the Supreme Being, and his actual universe, with the 
Moral Law for a guide : to use their power of thought, and step clean outside of 
the real and actual into the fanciful. When the imputed nature of the Jewish 
God is taken into account, it should be no marvel, that disobedience to a com- 
mand immoral in itself, should be consistent with punishment, and should be 
treated as an offense against his realm. 

What should be expected from a tyrant but tyranny, and that an affront 
to its majesty from any source, should be satisfied according to the discipline, 
of all savages with the highest crime, which is the taking of human life. But 
that is no reason why men should step out, of their own realm, into another, 
and pretend justification in transgressing the Moral Law. By such conduct 
you admit that the rule of your world is vice, and virtue must seek pardon just 
as surely as the son who seeks forgiveness of its parent for a night passed with- 
out a theft. 

The fact that the principle is buried in dogmas does not a whit alter the 
heinousness of the entire scheme. Original Sin and Redemption, is in down- 
right and positive defiance of the Supreme Being and his Moral Law. The 



258 MORAL LAW APPLIED. 

consciousness of an existence in harmonious accord with the final cause or end 
purpose of the Supreme Being is the soul's present perfection. If a man adores 
a base, ignoble, tyrannical God, which requires a mediator as a kixig's minister 
or a governmental lobbiest, to intercede between himself and man, high sound- 
ing epithets can never cover the baseness of this sophistry. 

A God is to be judged by his moral rectitude: and any ''God the Son " 
who lays down his life, to fulfil such scripture as Isa. 7:14 and confirmed 
Matt. 1:22:23. and 26:53:54 and is to atone for such sin as Adam's a second 
time in utter mockery of his own original god's summary treatment of 
ADAM (unless taken in jest: according to agreement) is an imposter by the 

VERY document USED FOR HIS ORIGIN. 

If the Supreme Being has so constituted the soul of man that moral excel- 
lence and integrity is paramount to all else, as he surely has: then gods set up 
by tyrants as is the unscruplous God of Adam, Abraham and Ahab apostatized 
into a trinity, and adopted for the Christian Religion, whcse legendary conduct 
with the masses, from first to last, is an uninterrupted chronicle, of meanness, 
brutality and despotism, dealing out a command for four hundred and ninety 
per cent, more fortitude and forbearance, between man and man, than between 
king, or God and man, which the deluded masses have striven by the dictate 
of their priests, to appease with ointments and perfumes, odors and sacrifices 
arising from animal and human flesh: the character of such a God is anything 
but elevating, whether worshipped as a whole number, or made fractional. 
But be it known, that every attempt from first to last, in the Old and New Testa- 
ments to silence reason with the subterfuge that "Everything is possible with 
(such a) God, " is only another way of stating that everything is possible with 
depotism, and this maximal subterfuge is resorted, to when self impeached by the 
Moral Law: the rule which is a sure guide, with which to detect the false and 
the counterfeit: and which if followed up personal investigation will confirm. 

Our faculties when unperverted, with christian fanaticism, or superstition, 
are a perfect phenomenal exhibition or manifestation of the Supreme Being. 
The purpose of perfection, in the human soul, is identical with the order of the 
universe, and purpose of the Supreme Being: this truth is self evi- 
dent, and fundemental, to the soul's power of perfection and such 
a truth is eternal, and yields an inseparable relation, between man and 
the Supreme Being. The unperverted soul cares nothing for thrones, or seats 
at the right hand of thrones, or foot stools of human degeneracy of their own 
make, but moral excellence is the eternal jewel of the soul and truth 
and RIGHT is the SETTING. It is a maxim with the christian, that inspiration, if 
ascribed to a God when positively immoral, is not only a substitute for insight, 
integrity, and moral principle, but the feeble mind of the Proselyte actually 
believes that immoral commands ascribed to an immoral God, which his neigh- 
bors furnish him, transcend moral principles, which are ordinances of the 
Supreme Being. 

Such is the superficial teaching of his Bible. Such is the fanaticism of his 
mind. Should a clergyman gospelled in Bibical mythology attempt to wield 
a moral principle, like an infant with an open razor in hand, he is like in the 



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presence of a foe, to drop the weapon or slash his own or friend's throat, as to 
wield it upon his enemy. 

Why? Because his maxims are the sayings of tyranny, put into the mouth 
of its Gods, and Saviors to add weight and currency to indiscriminate obedience, 
which with the masses, like the cloak and cheek stories, become the measure of 
their morality, in perpetuating despotism. 

But let a man once firmJ}^ grasp a positive faith in the Moral Law, the parch- 
ed tongue reveals the God who built the fire. The drop of water reveals the 
disposition of its possessor. The footstool lays bare the hidden remorse and 
revenges of its owner. " God the Father hath concluded all in unbelief that he 
might have mercy upon all." God the Son saith, ''He that belie veth not shall 
be damned. " ''But the scripture hath concluded under sin that the promise by 
faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." 

A dogma that makes the rule of the world vice, and the exception virtue to 
be expiated. But let a citizen of the Supreme Being, in conscious posesssion of 
the right and the truth once grasp the hilt of the Moral Law, and at his feet 

MUST FALL, EVERY DOGMA of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, every book OF ITS PAGAN 

MYTHOLOGY, its pictorial abode of Heaven and Hell and every god in its 

PAGAN trinity. And WHAT is LEFT FOR MAN? NOTHINGI BUT: WHAT? The 
ENTITY and UNIMPEACHABLE DECREES of the SUPREME BE NG. 



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